HIPPONAX

hĭpōˈnăks, fl. 540 b.c., Greek iambic poet. Banished from Ephesus after insulting the tyrants there, he went to live in Clazomenae. He is believed to have been the inventor of the choliambic, or "limping" iambic verse. He wrote spirited satire, fragments of which are extant.

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Callimachus' Book of Iambi
Book by Arnd Kerkhecker; Oxford University, 1999
Subjects: Hipponax--Fl. 540-537 B.C--In Literature, Iambic Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism, Lost Literature--Greece, Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Satire, Greek--History And Criticism
...the addressee s is preserved intact. Hipponax harangues the scholars. Rollenpoesie...generality invites us to find the author among Hipponax audience. 149 Iambicists are explicitly...well as others. Callimachus acts as Hipponax preaches, and ingeniously surpasses...
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Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition
Book by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes; University of California Press, 2002
Subjects: Iambic Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism
...ONE Callimachus and the Adaptation of Hipponax IAMBUS 1 The figure of the sixth-century B.C.E. poet Hipponax and the evocation of his verse pervade...already attaching himself on one level to Hipponax. 1 For it is with Hipponax that these...
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Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire
Book by Ralph M. Rosen; Oxford University Press, 2007
Subjects: Verse Satire, Classical--History And Criticism
...target, respectively, by none other than Hipponax. I have discussed elsewhere the likelihood that Hipponax assimilated the motif of Odysseus as underdog...Bupalus, since it would have allowed Hipponax to maintain a simultaneously abject and...
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The Beginnings of European Theorizing--Reflexivity in the Archaic Age
Book by Barry Sandywell; Routledge, 1996
of Hipponax who advanced the deconstruction of the...From the sherds of poetry ascribed to Hipponax of Ephesus his unheroic presence, like...protector of thieves and wanderers. Hipponax is the Francois Villon of the Archaic...
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Ptolemaic Alexandria
Book by P. M. Fraser; Clarendon Press, 1972
Subjects: Alexandria (Egypt)--Civilization
...sixth century, with the writings of Hipponax of Ephesus, whom Callimachus and other...currency even among his contemporaries. 133 Hipponax seems to have had no immediate or more...of this class certainly owed much to Hipponax; among these the most important is Phoenix...
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journal articles on: Hipponax  - 3 results

 
 
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Edward Sanders on His Fiction: An Interview
Journal article by Brooke Horvath; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 19, 1999
Subjects: Fugs (Music group)--History, Novelists--Interviews, Poets--Interviews, Political activists--Interviews, Rock musicians--Interviews, Sanders, Ed--Interviews
...Fame Love of a "fear of the fate of Hipponax the Poet," a "bard of the gutter...spackled scandal." ES: Yes, because Hipponax exists only as fragments, and the only...hand of the guy he lampooned in Vegas; Hipponax played for keeps. So his story shows...
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Infanticide, Child Rape and War in Early States
Journal article by Lloyd Demause; The Journal of Psychohistory, Vol. 36, 2009
...were were short-lived, since, as Hipponax put it, "There are only two happy days...they tor were short-lived, since, as Hipponax put it, "There are only two happy days...they tor were short-lived, since, as Hipponax put it, "There are only two happy days...
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I'm Me and You're Not: Kent Johnson's Miseries of Poetry
Journal article by David Hadbawnik; Chicago Review, Vol. 51, 2005
Subjects: Johnson, Kent, Literary criticism, Poetry, Poets
...his memorable poem "On Imitation," and on the next page, Hipponax begins by requesting "Be a coatrack for me, dear, while...has the eyeless goddess, Wealth, come to my hut and said: Hipponax, Im giving you thirty four silver minas and thats just for...


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newspaper articles on: Hipponax  - 2 results

 
 
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One Revival That Should Never Have Been Staged
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 2, 2005
...and more obscure - the futile passion of the ugly little poet Hipponax for Sappho, the lesbian poetess, for example, or his revenge...repeated quirkiness in caricature and variable perspective. If Hipponax, 2,500 years ago, cursed Bupalus and Athenis for portraying...
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Of Seethe, Snarl and Glinting Malice
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 18, 2009
Subjects: Denby, David, Humor, Wit and humor
...wondered if the nature of his abuse, and everything in his life that produced it, didnt put him in the line of Archilochus and Hipponax as a writer of snark. Cant we claim Juvenal as snarks greatest talent, the peak from which every later version of the style...


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encyclopedia articles on: Hipponax  - 2 results

 
 
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Hipponax
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HIPPONAX hipo naks, fl. 540 b.c., Greek iambic poet. Banished from Ephesus after insulting the tyrants there, he went to live in...
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Greek Literature, Ancient
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of many early Greek poets, including the elegiasts Tyrtaeus , Theognis , Solon , Semonides of Amorgos , Archilochus , and Hipponax . The most personal Greek poems are the lyrics of Alcaeus , Sappho and Anacreon . The Dorian lyric for choral performance...


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