5th century BC) was the one-eyed Athenian writer of the Old Comedy, who flourished during the Peloponnesian War.
According to the Suda, he wrote forty plays,[2] and his chief actor was Simeron, according to the scholiast of Aristophanes.
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.
[1][3] Other types of works written by Hermippus cited by ancient writers include trimeters and tetrameters.
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