Hipponax
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Greek iambic poet known for scathing satirical verse.
For neither did he whom the iambic of Hipponax had wounded, or who was hurt by the verse of Archilochus, contain a grief sent in by a god and not conceived by himself;
Stromata
Greek iambic poet, cited as an example of shameless writing.
Are we, then, to allow Theopompus and Timaeus to compose fables and slanders, and Epicurus besides, the founder of atheism, and Hipponax and Archilochus to write with such shamelessness, and yet forbid the man who proclaims the truth to leave behind a benefit for those who come after?