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EUPOLIS (c. 446-411 t.c.)

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 900 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
EUPOLIS (c. 446-411 t.c.) , Athenian poet of the Old Comedy, flourished in the time of the Peloponnesian War. Nothing whatever is known of his personal
history
 . With regard to his death, he is said to have been thrown into the sea by Alcibiades, whom he had attacked in one of his plays, but it is more likely that he died fighting for his country. He is ranked by
Horace
  (Sat. i..4, I), along with
Cratinus
  and Aristophanes, as the greatest writer of his school. With a lively and fertile
fancy
  Eupolis combined a
sound
 
practical
  judgment; he was reputed to equal Aristophanes in the elegance and purity of his diction, and
Cratinus
  in his command of irony and sarcasm. Although he was at first on good terms with Aristophanes, their relations subsequently became strained, and they accused each other, in most virulent terms, of imitation and plagiarism. Of the 17 plays attributed to Eupolis, with which he obtained the first prize seven times, only fragments remain. Of these the best known were: the Kolakes, in which he pilloried the spendthrift
Callias
 , who wasted his substance on sophists and parasites; Maricas, an attack on Hyperbolus, the successor of Cleon, under a fictitious name; the Baptae, against Alcibiades and his clubs, at which profligate foreign
rites
  were practised. Other objects of his attack were Socrates and Cimon. The. Demoi and Poleis were political, dealing with the desperate
condition
  of the state and with the allied (or tributary) cities.
Fragments in T. Kock, Comicorum Atticorum fragments, i. (1880).


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