Hermippus ( ‹See Tfd› Greek : Ἕρμιππος ; fl. 5th century BC) was the one-eyed Athenian writer of the Old Comedy , who flourished during the Peloponnesian War .
4-453: He was the son of Lysis, and the brother of the comic poet Myrtilus. He was younger than Telecleides and older than Eupolis and Aristophanes . According to the Suda , he wrote forty plays, and his chief actor was Simeron, according to the scholiast of Aristophanes. The titles and fragments of nine of his plays are preserved. He was a bitter opponent of Pericles , whom he accused (probably in
8-601: The Moirai ) 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 "Female Bread-Sellers", he attacked the demagogue Hyperbolus . The "Mat-Carriers" contains many parodies of Homer . Ninety-four fragments of Hermippus' work survives, along with
12-414: The following nine titles: Hermippus also appears to have written scurrilous iambic poems after the manner of Archilochus . Other types of works written by Hermippus cited by ancient writers include trimeters and tetrameters . This article about an Ancient Greek writer or poet is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Telecleides Telecleides ( Ancient Greek : Τηλεκλείδης )
16-623: Was an Athenian Old Comic poet. A contemporary of Cratinus , he was active c. 450 BC – c. 420 BC , and is known to have won at the Dionysia three times and the Lenaia five times. Only eight titles and a few fragments of his plays survive. One of his plays was The Amphictyons , in which Telecleides presented a Golden Age of impossibly effortless plenty. His other known plays include Apseudeis , Hesiodoi , Prytanes , Sterrhoi , and Eumenides . The standard edition of
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