Hipponax

Hipponax of Ephesus was a Greek satirist of the 6th century BC.

542 BC, he was driven by the tyrant Athenagoras by the Persian invasion of his native city of Ephesus; then he fled after Klazomenai. Hipponax is after caricatured him two sculptors and thus ensured for public ridicule about him, they have provided with insulting verses pentameter. He used the verse as he invented Hinkjambus In his satirical songs and parodies. Hipponax also applies to the first propagator of epic parody.