[1] Of Thasos, poet of Comedies, first professional parodist, 5th cent. BC
of Thasos. Poet of the Old Comedy (preserved is a fragment of the Philínna, cf. PCG V 547) and first professional parodist (παρῳδός/parōidós, Aristot. Poet. 1448a 12f.). Parodizing literature became a literary genre through him, a funny appendix at the rhapsode games, similar to the satyr play at the tragedy agons (cf. [1]). In the…
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Montanari, Ornella (Bologna) and
Albiani, Maria Grazia (Bologna),
“Hegemon”, in:
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