Hermippos (Athens)

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Hermippos ( Greek  Ἕρμιππος ), son of Lysis from Athens , was born in the 5th century BC. A Greek poet of the ancient comedy . He succeeded the Kratinos and was a little older than his later competitors Aristophanes and Eupolis .

Hermippus, who was supposedly one-eyed, was victorious in 436/35 BC. BC for the first time with the Dionysia and then four times with the Lenaia . Of his forty pieces, eleven titles have survived, some of which refer to the current political situation and some of which can be identified as parodies of mythology or tragedy . The fragments prove the seriousness of his contemporary polemics, which were directed primarily against the leaders of the warring party Pericles , Hyperbolus and Alcibiades . Pericles' companion, Aspasia , was named by him around 433/32 BC. BC accused in court of godlessness and coupling.

expenditure

  • Theodor Kock: Comicorum Atticorum fragmenta . Volume 1, Teubner, Leipzig 1880, pp. 224-253 ( online ).
  • Augustus Meineke : Poetarum Graecorum comicorum fragmenta , 1855.
  • Colin Austin / Rudolf Kassel (eds.): Poetae Comici Graeci .

literature

  • Bernhard Zimmermann : Hermippos . In: Bernhard Zimmermann (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Greek literature of antiquity , Volume 1: The literature of the archaic and classical times . CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-57673-7 , pp. 739-741

Remarks

  1. ↑ Plutarch , Pericles 32.
personal data
SURNAME Hermippus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hermippus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek comedy poet and contemporary of Aristophanes
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC Chr.