EUPOLIS

yooˈpəlĭs, fl. 430–411 b.c., Athenian comic poet. He seems to have collaborated with Aristophanes, whom he also attacked; another of his victims was Alcibiades. His plays, satirical and malicious, were greatly admired by the ancients. Fragments of his work survive.

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Clouds
Book by Peter Meineck, Aristophanes; Hackett, 2000
Subjects: Greek Drama (Comedy)--Translation Into English
...was just not the same. Then there is Eupolis, another of the new comedians of the...of Aristophanes for using material from Eupolis (fr. 213), and there seems to have...exchange in which Aristophanes accused Eupolis of plagiarizing his Knights in his Maricas...
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The People of Aristophanes: A Sociology of Old Attic Comedy
Book by Victor Ehrenberg; B. Blackwell, 1943
Subjects: Aristophanes--Political And Social Views, Athens (Greece)--Economic Conditions, Athens (Greece)--Social Conditions, Comedy, Literature And Society--Greece--Athens
...Aristophanes: Hippeis 425/4 ? " : Georgoi Eupolis: Chrysoun genos 425/4 Aristophanes...Kratinos Ameipsias: Konnos 424/3 ? Eupolis: Astrateutoi Aristophanes: Sphekes 423/2 IG. I2, 76 423/2 Eupolis: Poleis Pherekrates: Krapataloi Eupolis...
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Broken Laughter: Select Fragments of Greek Comedy
Book by S. Douglas Olson; Oxford University Press, 2007
Subjects: Greek Drama (Comedy), Greek Drama (Comedy)--History And Criticism, Quotations, Greek
...Frogs in 405). The initial victory by Eupolis recorded at the bottom of the preserved...total of twenty victories appear above Eupolis in col. I, the top of which is complete...of the competition at the festival. If Eupolis took the prize in 430/29 (the earliest...
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Isaeus
Book by Isaeus, Michael Edwards; University of Texas Press, 2007
Subjects: Forensic Orations--Greece--Athens, Inheritance And Succession (Greek Law)--Sources, Inheritance And Succession--Greece--Athens--Sources, Isaeus--Ca. 420-Ca. 350 B.C--Translations Into English, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Greek--Translations Into English
...true, that he won two lawsuits against Eupolis, one over his guardianship, the other...benefits he received from us; but towards Eupolis his hostility concerned such large sums...Strong evidence of their hostility is that Eupolis had two daughters, but he gave neither...
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Aristophanes, an Author for the Stage
Book by Carlo Ferdinando Russo; Routledge, 1997
...and Kantharos, in 423 and 422. This implies that Eupolis victory must date to 425 or 424, Aristophanes to...the performance of around 15 alone), and likewise Eupolis. That Eupolis was present at the Dionysian contests of 424, and...
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The Resurrection of Aristeides, Miltiades, Solon and Perikles in Eupolis' Demes *
Journal article by Giulia Torello; Antichthon, Vol. 42, 2008
Subjects: Theater
...Aristeides, Miltiades, Solon and Perikles in Eupolis Demes * by Giulia Torello (ProQuest...Aristeides, Miltiades, Solon and Perikles in Eupolis Demes was arguably one of the most celebrated...Platonios (diff. char. 13-4) praises Eupolis for being capable of resurrecting...
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Reviewed Elsewhere
Journal article; Biography, Vol. 28, 2005
Subjects: All Under Heaven: The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, L'Abbe Alary (1690-1770): Un homme d'influence au XVIIIe siecle (Book)--Book reviews, The Moon Can Wait (Book)--Book reviews
...AlterNation 10.2 (2003): 348-54. Eupolis, Athenian comic playwright (died ca. 410 BC) Eupolis: Poet of Old Comedy. Ian C. Storey...Horace (Sat. 1.4.1) thought it was: Eupolis atque Cratinus Aristophanesque poetae...
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The Dramatic Background of the Arguments with Callicles, Euripides' Antiope, and an Athenian Anti-intellectual Argument
Journal article by Harold Tarrant; Antichthon, Vol. 42, 2008
Subjects: Callicles, Drama, Euripides (484-06 BC), Intellectuals, Literary criticism
...when Aristophanes must have largely written the Wasps and Eupolis the Poleis,9 Demus was well known as an object of lovers...the only possible date for the composition of the Antiope. Eupolis presumably continued to satirise soft intellectuals in his...
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Aristophanes's Response to the Peloponnesian War and the Defeat of the Comic Hero
Journal article by Vassiliki Kotini; Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 2010
Subjects: Aristophanes--Criticism and interpretation, Aristophanes--Works, Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BC--Portrayals, Plays--Criticism and interpretation, Psychic trauma--Portrayals, Trauma (Psychology)--Portrayals, War--Portrayals, Wars--Portrayals
...1989). From the Scholia in Peace (741) we learn that the "cowardly Dionysos" was a familiar feature of the plays of Eupolis and Cratinus. (40) See P. Neils Boulter, "Sophia and Sophrosyne in Euripides Andromache," Phoenix 20.1 (1966...
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Two Pathic Subcultures in Ancient Rome
Journal article by Rabun Taylor; Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 7, 1997
Subjects: Sex Customs--History, Sexology
...nickname is Demosthenes stutter. But the first- or second- century- B.C.E. lexicographer Harpocration explains that Eupolis, a fifth- century-B.C.E. comedian, calls the buttocks and that with respect to Demosthenes, Aeschines is "quoting...
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Statistics, Real Estate, and the Principles of War: Why There Is No Unified Theory of War
Magazine article by Jan S. Breemer; Military Review, Vol. 86, September 2006
Subjects: Theory, War
...and I. We ve been present at the moment the world changed. Eupolis: Whats that supposed to mean? Callicratus: Whats new, what...real. Hunted relentlessly by their enemies, Callicratus and Eupolis, together with thousands of other Athenian soldiers, had...


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encyclopedia articles on: Eupolis  - 3 results

 
 
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Eupolis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EUPOLIS yoo p lis, fl. 430 411 b.c., Athenian comic poet. He seems to have collaborated with Aristophanes, whom he also attacked...
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Cratinus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...won the prize at the Athenian drama contest when Aristophanes competed with The Clouds and was regarded with Aristophanes and Eupolis as one of the greatest comic dramatists. He attacked Pericles violently in his plays. Fragments of his plays survive. See...
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Greek Literature, Ancient
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...was the foremost exponent of Attic Old Comedy, Aristophanes . Other writers who developed this genre included Cratinus and Eupolis , of whom little is known. The rowdy humor of these early works gave way to the more sedate Middle Comedy and finally to New...


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