Hermippus
Hermippus (Ancient Greek: Ἕρμιππος; fl. 5th century BC) was the one-eyed Athenian writer of the Old Comedy, who flourished during the Peloponnesian War.
Hermippus
- Born
- 500. · Athens.
- Died
- 500.
- Nationality
- Classical Athens.
- Occupation
- comedy writer and poet.
- Movements
- Old Comedy.
- Languages
- Ancient Greek.
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Hermippus (Ancient Greek: Ἕρμιππος; fl. 5th century BC) was the one-eyed Athenian writer of the Old Comedy, who flourished during the Peloponnesian War.
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Hermippus (500–500) was a comedy writer and poet and a national of Classical Athens. The comedy writer was born in Athens. Hermippus was associated with Old Comedy. Languages used include Ancient Greek.
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Life
Life
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 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.
Surviving titles and fragments
Surviving titles and fragments
Ninety-four fragments of Hermippus' work survive, along with 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.
Fragments
Fragments
Theodor Kock. Comicorum Atticorum fragmenta, i. (1880). Augustus Meineke. Poetarum Graecorum comicorum fragmenta, (1855). C. Austin and Rudolf Kassel. Poetae Comici Graeci.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
500
Hermippus born at Athens.
500
Hermippus died.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 118703757, Hermippus, Smyrnaeus.
Unverified · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
- Library of Congress Name Authority File, Hermippus, active 440-435 B.C. (no2017109871).
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1235541: Hermippus
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- “Hermippus”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Suda ε 3044
- 2.Douglas E. Gerber, Greek Iambic Poetry, Loeb Classical Library (1999), p. 9
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 118703757, Hermippus, Smyrnaeus.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Library of Congress Name Authority File, Hermippus, active 440-435 B.C. (no2017109871).Library of Congress
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