Editing Hermippus (section)

==Life==
He was the son of Lysis, and the brother of the comic poet Myrtilus. He was younger than [[Telecleides]] and older than [[Eupolis]] and [[Aristophanes]]. According to the [[Suda]], he wrote forty plays,<ref>Suda ε 3044</ref> and his chief actor was Simeron, according to the [[scholia]]st of Aristophanes. The titles and fragments of nine of his plays are preserved. 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 [[Lacedaemon]]ians 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]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}