Pigres (Greek: Πίγρης), a native of Halicarnassus, either the brother or the son of the celebrated Artemisia, satrap of Caria.
[3] One of his feats was a very singular one, namely, inserting a pentameter line after each hexameter in the Iliad, thus: — Bode (Gesch.
Some suppose that the iambic lines, which alternated with the hexameters in the Margites, were inserted by Pigres.
i. p. 519, &c.) Pigres is one of the many historical characters featured in Gore Vidal's novel Creation.
In Vidal's depiction, Pigres was Artemisia's brother - excluded by her from succession to their father's throne, living in fear of her and taking up comic poetry as a refuge.