Heroes were part of the Ancient Greek Comedy

The Greek Orthodox fundamentalists have a problem admitting that Christianity has Judean roots, so they keep talking nonsense about the Hellenic Religion. They seem to have a lot of time and money, so they spread their nonsense everywhere. This nonsense is supported by the supposed elites of the Greek State, like doctors, lawyers, judges, bankers, directors, army and police officers.
Christian Orthodoxy has taken shape by the Byzantine Emperors and that is a fact. They summoned Synods where theological matters were discussed and those who proved to be a minority were persecuted. Fundamentalists just speak about a 1% of 'Dominators', a word used by Greek Anarchists, who controlled the ancient Hellenic world and 99% were hero, ancestor and fatherland worshippers as they say. In the Land of Democracy and self organising City-States, they speak about Dominators.
A fact presented as a proof for their assumptions is that because Gods had roles in Comedy, they were mocked. Comedies were named after Heroes as well so if Gods were ridiculed, than Heroes were ridiculed as well. Common people were unknown, so were their ancestors. I don't know what they mean by Fatherland, the soil? Comedies did ridicule what was happening in the city, that was their fatherland.
Mosted comedies haven't survived and we know only titles and some fragments, they didn't survive the so Hellenic Byzantine Empire. Batraxomyomachia, the war between frogs and mice is a parody of the Iliad and this text has survived. Achilles, Ajax, Odysseus, Diomedes were all heroes.

Batraxomyomachia

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Plato (comic poet)

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Plato (also Plato Comicus; Ancient Greek: Πλάτων Κωμικός) was an Athenian comic poet and contemporary of Aristophanes. None of his plays survive intact, but the titles of thirty of them are known, including a Hyperbolus (c. 420-416 BC), Victories (after 421), Cleophon (in 405), and Phaon (probably in 391). The titles suggest that his themes were often political. In 410 BC, one of his plays took first prize at the City Dionysia.

Phaon included a scene (quoted in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus) in which a character sits down to study a poem about gastronomy (in fact mostly about aphrodisiacs) and reads some of it aloud. The poem is in hexameters, and therefore sounds like a lampoon of the work of Archestratus, although the speaker calls it "a book by Philoxenus", meaning either the poet Philoxenus of Cythera, the glutton Philoxenus of Leucas, or both indiscriminately.

Surviving titles and fragments

Of Plato the comic poet's plays, only the following thirty titles, along with 292 associated fragments,survive.

Adonis The Alliance Ambassadors Amphiareos Ants Cleophon Daidalus Europe Festivals Greece, or the Islands

Griffins Hyperbolus Io Laius Laconians, or Poets Little Child The Long Night Meneleos Peisander Perialges

Phaon Pieces of Furniture The Poet The Resident Aliens The Sophists Syrphex Victories The Women from the Temples Xantriai, or Kerkopes Zeus Being Wronged