Complex sentence: The form is named after the Greek cynic Menippus, whose works, now lost, influenced the works of Lucian and Marcus Terentius Varro; such satires are sometimes termed Varronian satire.
Split into simpler sentences: The form is named after the Greek cynic Menippus, whose works, now lost, influenced the works of Lucian and Marcus Terentius Varro. Indeed, such satires are sometimes termed Varronian satire.