Ephippus of Athens () was an

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comic poet 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. Greek comedy was distinguished from tragedy by its happy endings and use of comically exa ...

of the

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 The satyr play is a form of Attic theatre performance related to both comedy and trag ...

. We learn this from the testimonies of Suidas and

Antiochus of Alexandria Antiochus () of Alexandria was a writer of ancient Greece who wrote a work on the Greek poets of the middle Attic comedy, called "On the Poets Satirized in Middle Comedy" (Περὶ τῶν ἐν τῇ μέσῃ κωμῳδίᾳ κωμῳδουμ� ...

, and from the allusions in his fragments to

Plato Plato ( ; Greek language, Greek: , ; born BC, died 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical Greece, Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the writte ...

, and the Academic philosophers, and to

Alexander of Pherae Alexander () was Tyrant or Despot of Pherae in Thessaly, ruling from 369 to 356 BC. Following the assassination of Jason, the tyrant of Pherae and Tagus of Thessaly, in 370 BC, his brother Polyphron ruled for a year, but he was then poisoned by ...

and his contemporaries,

Dionysius the Elder Dionysius I or Dionysius the Elder ( 432 – 367 BC) was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily. He conquered several cities in Sicily and southern Italy, opposed Carthage's influence in Sicily and made Syracuse the most powerful of the Western ...

, Cotys, Theodorus, and others. The following twelve titles of his plays are the known to us: ''Artemis'', ''Bousiris'', ''Gêruonês'' ("The

Geryon In Greek mythology, Geryon ( ; , genitive ), also Geryone (, or ), son of Chrysaor and Callirrhoe, the grandson of Medusa and the nephew of Pegasus, was a fearsome giant who dwelt on the island Erytheia of the mythic Hesperides in the far ...

s"), ''Empolê'' ("Merchandise"), ''Ephêboi'' ("Adolescents"), ''Kirkê'' ("

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"), ''Kudôn'', ''Nauagos'' ("Shipwrecked"), ''Obeliaphoroi ê Homoioi'', ''Peltastês'', ''Sapphô'', and ''Philura.'' An epigram which

Eustathius Eustathius or Eustathios (Greek Εὐστάθιος) is a Greek masculine given name, in English rendered Eustace. It may refer to: * Saint Eustace, martyr (d. 118) * Sint Eustatius, Dutch island in the Caribbean * Eustathius of Antioch, Patriarch ...

ascribes to Ephippus is not his, but the production of some unknown author. There are some fragments also extant from the unknown plays of Ephippus.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)

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