Hermippus

Hermippus (

Athenian writer of the Old Comedy, who flourished during the Peloponnesian War.^[1]

Life

He was the son of Lysis, and the brother of the comic poet Myrtilus. He was younger than

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.^[1]

Surviving titles and fragments

Ninety-four fragments of Hermippus' work survives, along with the following nine titles:

Athenas Gonai ("Birth of Athena")

Artopolides ("Female Bread-Sellers")

Demotai ("Citizens")

Kerkopes ("Cercopes")
Moirai ("Fates")
Stratiotai ("Soldiers")
Phormophoroi ("Mat-Carriers")

Hermippus also appears to have written scurrilous iambic poems after the manner of Archilochus.^[1]^[3] Other types of works written by Hermippus cited by ancient writers include trimeters and tetrameters.

Fragments

Theodor Kock. Comicorum Atticorum fragmenta, i. (1880).
Augustus Meineke
. Poetarum Graecorum comicorum fragmenta, (1855).
C. Austin and Rudolf Kassel. Poetae Comici Graeci.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Chisholm 1911.
^ Suda ε 3044
^ Douglas E. Gerber, Greek Iambic Poetry, Loeb Classical Library (1999), p. 9

Sources

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hermippus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 371.

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[FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-1] Chisholm 1911.

[2] Suda ε 3044

[3] Douglas E. Gerber, Greek Iambic Poetry, Loeb Classical Library (1999), p. 9

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