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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 371 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERMIPPUS , " the one-eyed," Athenian writer of the Old See also:

Comedy, flourished 'during the Peloponnesian See also:War. He is said to have written 40 plays, of which the titles and fragments of nine aie preserved. He was a See also:bitter opponent of See also:Pericles, whom he accused (probably in the MolpaL) of being a See also:bully and a See also:coward, and of carousing with his boon companions while the Lacedaemonians were invading See also:Attica. He also accused See also:Aspasia of impiety and offences against morality, and her acquittal was only secured by the tears of Pericles (See also:Plutarch, Pericles, 32). In the 'Apro^rwXites (" Bakeresses ") he attacked the See also:demagogue Hyperbolus. The cDopµo46pot (See also:Mat-See also:carriers) contains many parodies of See also:Homer. Hermippus also appears to have written scurrilous See also:iambic poems after the manner of See also:Archilochus. Fragments in T. See also:Kock, Comicorum Atticorum fragmenta, i. (188o), and A. See also:Meineke, Poetarum Graecorum cmicorum fragmenta (1855).

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