Hegemon of Thasos (Greek: Ἡγήμων ό Θάσιος) was a Greek writer of the Old Comedy. Hardly anything is known of him, except that he flourished during the Peloponnesian War. According to Aristotle (Poetics, ii. 5) he was the inventor of a kind of parody; by slightly altering the wording in well-known poems he transformed the sublime into the ridiculous. When the news of the disastrous defeat of the Sicilian Expedition reached Athens, his parody of the Gigantomachia was being performed: it is said that the audience were so amused by it that, instead of leaving to show their grief, they remained in their seats.[1]
He was also the author of a comedy called Philinne (Philine), written in the manner of Eupolis and Cratinus, in which he attacked a well-known courtesan. Athenaeus (p. 698), who preserves some parodic hexameters of his, relates other anecdotes concerning him (pp. 5, 108, 407).[2]
HegemonofThasos (Greek: Ἡγήμων ό Θάσιος) was a Greek writer of the Old Comedy. Hardly anything is known of him, except that he flourished during the...
Thasos or Thassos (Greek: Θάσος, Thásos) is a Greek island in the North Aegean Sea. It is the northernmost major Greek island, and 12th largest by area...
Greek: κωμῳδία, romanized: kōmōidía) was one of the final three principal dramatic forms in the theatre of classical Greece (the others being tragedy and...
caricature. According to Aristotle (Poetics, ii. 5), HegemonofThasos was the inventor of a kind of parody; by slightly altering the wording in well-known...
(Odyssey 12.104); Aristotle named HegemonofThasos as the founder of parody (Poetics 1448a12) but he meant thereby that Hegemon was the first to make parody...
writer of parodies upon Homer, often quoted by Eustathius and Athenaeus. He was probably a contemporary ofHegemonofThasos, about the end of the fifth...
of its naval supremacy, which led to conflicts between the city and its less powerful allies, at times culminating in rebelions, like that ofThasos in...
Macedonian War (171–168 BC). The conquest by Philip II of Pangaeum, and then of the island ofThasos between 356 and 342 BC brought rich gold and silver...
The current list of ancient Olympic victors contains all of the known victors of the ancient Olympic Games from the 1st Games in 776 BC up to 264th in...
praeses (hegemon in Greek), and encompassing most of the Aegean islands, with twenty cities. Correspondingly, the island was also the metropolis of the ecclesiastical...
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mean the Greek soldiers (etc) that Alexander the Great was first the hegemonof, is being used by – at least – contemporary sources when referring to...
known, as well as a sweet wine from Thásos, similar to port wine. Wine was generally cut with water. The drinking of akraton or "unmixed wine", though known...
earlier conquests. Demosthenes refers to Thasos as independent in 340 but the subsequent references to Thasos had been construed by scholars like Rubensohn...
Greece under his direct sway. He was elected Hegemonof the league, and a campaign against the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was planned. However in 336 BC, while...
the nome. In addition, military officials — strategos, hipparchos, and hegemon — oversaw the nomes. Royal land was also assigned to individuals, to temple...
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