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Headword:
Hipus
Adler number: iota,591
Translated headword: Hipys, Hippys
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of Rhegium,[1] a historian, lived at the time of the Persian Wars, and was the first to write about events in
Sicily; Myes[3] later produced an abridged version. [He wrote]
Foundation of Italy;
History of Sicily, 5 books,
Chronologies [likewise] in 5 books;
History of Argos [Myth, Place] in 3.
This man[4] was the first to write parodies and choliambics and other [such] things.
Hipus, Rhêginos, historikos, gegonôs epi tôn Persikôn, kai prôtos egrapse tas Sikelikas praxeis, has husteron Muês epetemeto: Ktisin Italias, Sikelikôn biblia e#, Chronika en bibliois e#, Argolikôn g#. houtos prôtos egrapse parôidian kai chôliambon kai alla.
Notes:
FGrH 554 (testimonia and purported fragments). The authentic version of his name is the -pp- one, as in
Stephanus of
Byzantium (s.v. Arkadia) and elsewhere. See generally Lionel Pearson,
The Greek Historians of the West (Atlanta 1987) 8-10, summarizing the case for and against
Hippys' historicity and gently insisting on the strength of the latter.
[1] At the toe-end of Italy (
rho 122).
[2] i.e. the first quarter of the C5 BCE.
[3] Otherwise unknown.
[4] Surely not Hip(p)ys but
Hipponax (
iota 588), as Kuster suggested.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 October 2002@11:59:19.
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