Hermippus
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
:For the anus spider gent, see Hermippus (spider).
Hermippus, the one-eyed, Athenian writer of the Old Comedy, flourished during the Peloponnesian War.
He is said to have written 40 plays, of which the titles and fragments of nine are preserved. He was a bitter opponent of Pericles, whom he accused (probably in the MoIpai) of being a bully and a coward, and of carousing with his boon companions while the Lacedaemonians were invading Attica.
He also accused Aspasia of impiety and offences against morality, and her acquittal was only secured by the tears of Pericles (Plutarch, Pericles, 32). In the Apr rwXL~es ("Bakeresses") he attacked the demagogue Hyperbolus. The Iopt1o4aSpot ("Mat-carriers") contains many parodies of Homer. Hermippus also appears to have written scurrilous iambic poems after the manner of Archilochus.
Fragments in Theodor Kock, Comicorum Atticorum fragmenta, i. (1880), and Augustus Meineke, Potarum Graecorum comicorum fragmenta (1855).
 |
This article or section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please help improve this article or replace this tag with a more specific message. This article has been tagged since December 2005. (help, talk) |
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
This article about a Ancient Greek writer or poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
This article about a poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
