Eubulus (poet)

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Eubulus (Greek: Εὔβουλος, Euboulos) was an Athenian Middle Comedy poet, victorious six times at the Lenaia, first probably in the late 370s or 360s BC (IG II2 2325.144; just before Ephippus)

According to the Suda (test. 1), which dates him to the 101st Olympiad (i.e. 376/2) and identifies him as "on the border between the Middle and the Old Comedy", he produced 104 comedies and won six victories at the Lenaia. An obscure notice in a scholium on Plato (test. 4) appears to suggest that some of his plays were staged by Aristophanes’ son . He attacked Philocrates, Callimedon, Cydias, and Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse.

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

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 Rudolf Kassel and Colin François Lloyd Austin'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 V. The eight-volume Poetae Comici Graeci produced from 1983 to 2001 replaces the outdated collections Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum by August Meineke (1839-1857), Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta by (1880-1888) and Comicorum Graecorum Fragmenta by Georg Kaibel (1899).

Richard L. Hunter offers a careful study of Eubulus’ career and the fragments of his plays in Eubulus: The Fragments (Cambridge, 1983).[citation needed]


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