(Ἀριστομένης).
1. A comic poet of Athens. He belonged to the ancient Attic comedy, or more correctly to the second class of the poets constituting the old Attic comedy. For the ancients seem to distinguish the comic poets who flourished before the Peloponnesian war from those who lived during that war, and Aristomenes belonged to the latter. (Suidas, s. v. Ἀριστομένης ; Eudocia, p. 65; Argum. ad Aristoph. Equit.) He was sometimes ridiculed by the surname ὁ Δυροποιός,which may have been derived from the circumstance that either he himself or his father, at one time, was an artizan, perhaps a carpenter.