Career
The Menippean satire genre is named after him. Little is known about the life of Menippus. He was a native of Gadara in Coele-Syria.
The ancient sources agree that he was a slave.
He was in the service of a citizen of Pontus, but in some way obtained his freedom and lived at Thebes. Diogenes Laërtius relates a dubious story that he amassed a fortune as a money-lender, lost it, and committed suicide through grief.
