Definition of Hipponax. Meaning of Hipponax. Synonyms of Hipponax

- Hipponax (Ancient Gr****: Ἱππῶναξ; gen. Ἱππώνακτος; fl. late 6th century BC), of Ephesus and later Clazomenae, was an Ancient Gr**** iambic poet who composed...
- flourished in Chios in the 6th century BC. They were contemporaries of the poet Hipponax, whom they were said to have caricatured. Their works consisted almost...
- een dag, the protagonist is the historic poet Hipponax, who lived in Ionia during the 6th Century. Hipponax was known for his sharp tongue and his co****...
- Alcaeus Archilochus Aristophanes Bacchylides Euripides Herodotus Hesiod Hipponax Homer Ibycus Lucian Menander Mimnermus Pany****is Philocles Pindar Plutarch...
- (shorter) line of a two-line stanza of the kind composed by Archilochus and Hipponax in which the first line consists of a dactylic hexameter or an iambic trimeter...
- historical figures such as the elegiac poet Callinus and the iambic poet Hipponax, the philosopher Hera****us, the great painter Parrhasius and later the...
- contemporary with Hipponax (about 540 BCE). The invention of the satyric iambic verse called Scazon is ascribed to him as well as to Hipponax. Some fragments...
- inkling of this may be witnessed in the language of Ephesian "beggar poet" Hipponax, who often used local slang (νικύρτας, σάβαυνις: terms of abuse; χλούνης...
- ironic terms. In contrast, Pliny reports that the 6th-century-BC poet Hipponax wrote satirae that were so cruel that the offended hanged themselves. In...
- lacking elegy's decorum. The Archaic Gr**** poets Archilochus, Semonides and Hipponax were among the most famous of its early exponents. The Alexandrian poet...