Ephippus of Athens
Ephippus (Ephippos) of Athens was an Ancient Greek comic poet of the middle comedy.
We learn this from the testimonies of Suidas and Antiochus of Alexandria,[1] and from the allusions in his fragments to Plato, and the Academic philosophers,[2] and to Alexander of Pherae and his contemporaries, Dionysius the Elder, Cotys, Theodorus, and others.[3]
The following twelve titles of his plays are the known to us: Artemis, Bousiris, Gêruonês ("The Geryons"), Empolê ("Merchandise"), Ephêboi ("Adolescents"), Kirkê ("Circe"), Kudôn, Nauagos ("Shipwrecked"), Obeliaphoroi ê Homoioi, Peltastês, Sapphô, and Philura. An epigram which Eustathius ascribes to Ephippus[4] is not his, but the production of some unknown author.[5] There are some fragments also extant from the unknown plays of Ephippus.[6]
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Philip Smith (1870). "article name needed". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
Footnotes
- ↑ Athen. xi. p. 482, c. (cited by Smith)
- ↑ Athen. xi. p. 509, c. d. (cited by Smith)
- ↑ Athen. iii. p 112, f. xi. p. 482, d. (cited by Smith)
- ↑ ad Ilad. xi. 697, p. 879. 38 (cited by Smith)
- ↑ Comp. Athen. x. p. 442, d. (cited by Smith)
- ↑ Meineke, Fragm. Com. Graec. vol. i. pp. 351-354, iii. pp. 322-340; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. pp. 297, 298, 440. (cited by Smith)