5) he was the inventor of a kind of parody; by slightly altering the wording in well-known poems he transformed the sublime into the ridiculous.
When the news of the disastrous defeat of the Sicilian Expedition reached Athens, his parody of the Gigantomachia was being performed: it is said that the audience were so amused by it that, instead of leaving to show their grief, they remained in their seats.
[1] He was also the author of a comedy called Philinne (Philine), written in the manner of Eupolis and Cratinus, in which he attacked a well-known courtesan.
Athenaeus (p. 698), who preserves some parodic hexameters of his, relates other anecdotes concerning him (pp.
This article in turn cites: Fragments: Interpretation: See also D. Panomitros,"Hegemon of Thasos and Pleasure from Parody, Ancient Testimonies and Eustathius on the Parodist", Proceedings of the XIth Congress of FIEC, v.3, Athens 2004:504-513.