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Ephesus
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Hipponax
Hipponax
c. 575 BCE–c. 535 BCE · Ephesus
Hipponax of Ephesus (active mid-6th century BCE) was a Greek iambic poet known for his harsh, satirical, and often coarse verse aimed at personal enemies. He is traditionally credited with developing a distinctive 'limping' iambic meter, and his fragments offer a vivid, lowlife counterpoint to more elevated archaic poetry. Only fragments of his work survive.
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EphesusIonia (Asia Minor)
We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.
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A great Ionian city crowned by the Temple of Artemis—one of the Seven Wonders—and home to the enigmatic Heraclitus, who taught that all things flow and that strife is the father of all.
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