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]

References

•  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. 

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