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Eupolis
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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
Date: 19960101
Author:M. C. HOWATSON and IAN CHILVERS
Eupolis,
one of the trio of famous Athenian writers of Old Comedy, the others being Cratinus and Aristophanes (see COMEDY, GREEK 4 ). He was contemporary with the latter, producing his first play in 429 BC and dying at some time after 415. None of his plays survives in manuscript, but we have nineteen titles and numerous quotations as well as some papyrus fragments. His comedies are similar in subject-matter and style to those of Aristophanes. In Marikās (a non-Greek word meaning ‘catamite’) he attacked Hyperbolus much as Aristophanes did Cleon in Knights ; in Demoi ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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