HERMIPPUS, "the one-eyed," Athenian writer of the Old Comedy, flourished during the Peloponnesian War. He is said to have written 4o plays, of which the titles and fragments of nine are preserved. He was a bitter opponent of Pericles, whom he accused (probably in the MoipaL) of being a bully and a coward, and of carousing with his boon companions while the Lacedaemon ians were invading Attica. He is said to have prosecuted Aspasia for impiety and offences against morality (Plutarch, Pericles, 32). In the 'Apro?rWALSes ("Bakeresses") he attacked the demagogue Hyperbolus.