Pigres of Halicarnassus
Pigres (), a native of Halicarnassus, either the brother or the son of the celebrated Artemisia, satrap of Caria. He is spoken of by the "Suda" as the author of the "Margites" and the "Batrachomyomachia". The latter poem is also attributed to him by Plutarch, and was probably his work. One of his feats was a very singular one, namely, inserting a pentameter line after each hexameter in the Iliad, thus: — Bode ("Gesch. der Hellen. Dichtkunst". i. p. 279) believes that the "Margites", though not composed by Pigres, suffered some alterations at his hands, and in that altered  shape passed down to posterity. Some suppose that the iambic lines, which alternated with the hexameters in the "Margites", were inserted by Pigres. He was the first poet, apparently, who introduced the iambic trimeter. (Fabric. "Bibl. Graec." i. p. 519, &c.) In Literature. 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.