Eubulus ( grc-gre, Εὔβουλος, ''Euboulos'') was an

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Middle Comedy Ancient Greek comedy was one of the final three principal dramatic forms in the theatre of classical Greece (the others being tragedy and the satyr play). Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into three periods: Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, an ...

poet, victorious six times at the

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, first probably in the late 370s or 360s BC (''IG'' II2 2325.144; just before Ephippus) According to the ''

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'' (test. 1), which dates him to the 101st

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(i.e. 376/2) and identifies him as "on the border between the Middle and the

Old Comedy Old Comedy (''archaia'') is the first period of the ancient Greek comedy, according to the canonical division by the Alexandrian grammarians.Mastromarco (1994) p.12 The most important Old Comic playwright is Aristophanes – whose works, with thei ...

", he produced 104 comedies and won six victories at the

. An obscure notice in a ''

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'' on

Plato Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution ...

(test. 4) appears to suggest that some of his plays were staged by

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’ son Philippus. He attacked

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, and

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the tyrant of Syracuse. Eubulus's plays were chiefly about mythological subjects and often parodied the tragic playwrights, especially

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Surviving titles and fragments

150 fragments (including three ''dubia'') of his comedies survive, along with fifty-eight titles: *''Ancylion'' *''Anchises'' *''Amaltheia'' *''Anasozomenoi'' ("Men Who Were Trying To Get Home Safe") *''Antiope'' *''Astytoi'' ("Impotent Men") *''Auge'' *''Bellerophon'' *''Ganymede'' *''Glaucus'' *''Daedalus'' *''Danae'' *''Deucalion'' *''Dionysius'' *''Dolon'' *''Eirene'' ("Peace") *''Europa'' *''Echo'' *''Ixion'' *''Ion'' *''Kalathephoroi'' ("Basket-Bearers") *''Campylion'' *''Katakollomenos'' ("The Man Who Was Glued To the Spot") *''Cercopes'' *''Clepsydra'' *''Korydalos'' ("The Lark") *''Kybeutai'' ("Dice-Players") *''Lakones'' ("Spartans") or ''Leda'' *''Medea'' *''Mylothris'' ("The Mill-Girl") *''Mysians'' *''Nannion'' *''Nausicaa'' *''Neottis'' *''Xuthus'' *''Odysseus'' or ''Panoptai'' ("Men Who See Everything") *''Oedipus'' *''Oenimaus'' or ''Pelops'' *''Olbia'' *''Orthannes'' *''Pamphilus'' *''Pannychis'' ("The All-Night Festival") *''Parmeniscus'' *''Pentathlos'' ("The Pentathlete") *''Plangon'' *''Pornoboskos'' ("The Pimp") *''Procris'' *''Prosousia or Cycnus'' *''Semele or Dionysus'' *''Skyteus'' ("The Shoemaker") *''Stephanopolides'' ("Female Garland-Vendors") *''Sphingokarion'' ("Sphinx-Carion") *''Titans'' *''Tithai'' or ''Titthe'' ("Wet-Nurses" or Wet-Nurse") *''Phoenix'' *''Charites'' ("The Graces") *''Chrysilla'' *''Psaltria'' ("The Harp-Girl") The standard edition of the fragments and testimonia is in

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and

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's ''Poetae Comici Graeci'' Vol. V. The eight-volume ''Poetae Comici Graeci'' produced from 1983 to 2001 replaces the outdated collections ''Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum'' by

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(1839-1857), ''Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta'' by

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(1880-1888) and ''Comicorum Graecorum Fragmenta'' by

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(1899).

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offers a careful study of Eubulus’ career and the fragments of his plays in ''Eubulus: The Fragments'' (Cambridge, 1983). 4th-century BC Athenians Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights 4th-century BC writers Middle Comic poets Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown {{greece-stub