Hegemon of Thasos

Hegemon of Thasos in Wikipedia

Hegemon of Thasos (Greek: ήγεμών ό Θάσος) 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....

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