- For the ant spider genus, see Hermippus (genus).
Hermippus was the the one-eyed Athenian writer of the Old Comedy who flourished during the Peloponnesian War. Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's Comedy was one of two principal dramatic forms in ancient Greece the other being Tragedy. He was said to have written forty 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. Pericles (also spelled Perikles) (c 495 – 429 BC Greek:, meaning "surrounded by glory" was a prominent and influential Statesman, orator Attica (Αττική Attikí;) is a periphery (subdivision in Greece, containing Athens, the capital of Greece He also accused Aspasia of impiety and offences against morality, and her acquittal was only secured by the tears of Pericles (Plutarch, Pericles, 32). Aspasia (ca 470 BC&ndashca 400 BC Greek:) was a Milesian woman who was famous for her involvement with the Athenian statesman Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus ( Greek: Μέστριος Πλούταρχος c In the "Bakeresses", he attacked the demagogue Hyperbolus. Demagogy (also demagoguery) ( Ancient Greek δημαγωγία from dēmos "people" and agein "to lead" refers to a political Hyperbolus ( Ancient Greek:, Hypérbolos) was an Athenian politician active during the first half of the Peloponnesian war, coming to particular The "Mat-carriers" contains many parodies of Homer. Homer ( Ancient Greek:, Homēros) is a legendary ancient Greek epic Poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Hermippus also appears to have written scurrilous iambic poems after the manner of Archilochus. An iamb or iambus is a Metrical foot used in various types of Poetry. For the Hummingbird Genus, see Archilochus. Archilochus ( Greek:) (c
Fragments
- Theodor Kock. Comicorum Atticorum fragmenta, i. (1880).
- Augustus Meineke. Johann Albrecht Friedrich August Meineke ( December 8, 1790 - December 12, 1870) German classical scholar was born at Soest in Potarum Graecorum comicorum fragmenta, (1855).
Sources
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