Hipponax

Hipponax (Ἱππῶναξ) of Ephesus was a Greek satirist of the 6th century BC. Chr.

542 BC During the Persian invasion of Ephesus, he was expelled by the tyrant Athenagoras ; he then fled to Klazomenai . Hipponax to after it caricatured two sculptors and ensured public ridicule of him, with insulting verses iambic , have provided. He used as in his satirical songs and parodies meter his invention Hinkjambus . Hipponax is considered to be the first to spread the epic parody . His reputation as a sharp critic of society lived on in later poetry, such as in the epigram of Theocritus :

Here lies Hipponax, that poet, ashes. - Are you a bad guy; do not approach the grave! But if you are good, and come from bidern parents, sit down and, if you want, fall asleep.

Text editions and translations

Enzo Degani (Ed.): Ipponatte, Frammenti. Introduzione, traduzione e note from Enzo Degani. Premessa di Gabriele Burzacchini. Pàtron Editore, Bologna 2007 ( Studi di Eikasmós , 15).
Enzo Degani (Ed.): Hipponax, Testimonia et fragmenta. Edidit H. Degani. Teubner, Leipzig 1983; second edition Teubner, Stuttgart and Leipzig 1991 (authoritative text-critical edition of fragments and testimony)
Jan Maarten Bremer , Anna Maria van Erp Taalman Kip , Simon Roelof Slings : Some Recently Found Greek Poems: Text and Commentary. Brill, Leiden 1987 ( Mnemosyne. Supplementum , Vol. 99), ISBN 9-004-08319-7 . Google Books: [1] . ( Archilochus , Alkaios , anonymous commentary on Hipponax, Stesichoros )

literature

Andreas Bagordo : Hipponax . In: Bernhard Zimmermann (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Greek literature of antiquity , Volume 1: The literature of the archaic and classical times . CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-57673-7 , pp. 153-158
Hermann Fränkel : Poetry and philosophy of the early Greek culture. 5th edition, CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-37716-5 , pp. 245-249

Web links

Literature by and about Hipponax in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Theocritus: Theocrit's idylls and epigrams . Ed .: Ernst Christoph Bindemann. In the Frankesche Buchlung, Berlin 1793, p. 352 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hipponax
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek satirist
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.

[1] Theocritus: Theocrit's idylls and epigrams . Ed .: Ernst Christoph Bindemann. In the Frankesche Buchlung, Berlin 1793, p. 352 .