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HEGEMON OF THASOS

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THASOS , See also:Greek writer of the old See also:comedy, nicknamed cDaK.ij from his fondness for lentils. Hardly anything is known of him, except that he flourished during the Peloponnesian See also:War. According to See also:Aristotle (Poetics, ii. 5) he was the inventor of a See also:kind of See also:parody; by slightly altering the wording in well-known poems he transformed the- See also:sublime into the ridiculous. When the See also:news of the disaster in See also:Sicily reached See also:Athens, his parody of the Gigantomachia was being performed; it is said that the See also:audience were so amused by it that, instead of leaving to show their grief, they remained in their seats. He was also the author of a comedy called Philinne (Philine), written in the manner of See also:Eupolis and See also:Cratinus, in which he attacked a well-known courtesan. See also:Athenaeus (p. 698), who preserves some parodic hexameters of his, relates other anecdotes concerning him (pp. 5, ro8, 407). Fragments in T. See also:Kock, Comicorum Atticorum fragmenta, i. (188o) ; B.

J. Pcltzer, De parodica Graecorum poesi (1855).

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