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Hegemon of Thasos () was a Greek writer of the Old Comedy.

Hardly anything is known of him, except that he flourished during the Peloponnesian War.

According to Aristotle ( Poetics, ii.

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 disaster in Sicily 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.

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. 5, 108, 407 ).

Fragments in T Kock, Comicorum Atticorum fragmenta, i. ( 1880 ); BJ Peltzer, De parodica Graecorum poesi ( 1855 ).