Eubulus was an Athenian

Athens

Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

 "Middle Comic" poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, victorious six times at the Lenaia

Lenaia

The Lenaia was an annual festival with a dramatic competition. It was one of the lesser festivals of Athens and Ionia in ancient Greece. The Lenaia took place in Athens in the month of Gamelion, roughly corresponding to January. The festival was in honour of Dionysos Lenaios...

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

According to the Suda

Suda

The Suda or Souda is a massive 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, formerly attributed to an author called Suidas. It is an encyclopedic lexicon, written in Greek, with 30,000 entries, many drawing from ancient sources that have since been lost, and often...

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

Olympiad

An Olympiad is a period of four years, associated with the Olympic Games of Classical Greece. In the Hellenistic period, beginning with Ephorus, Olympiads were used as calendar epoch....

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

Old Comedy

Old Comedy is the first period of the ancient Greek comedy, according to the canonical division by the Alexandrian grammarians. The most important Old Comic playwright is Aristophanes, whose works, with their pungent political satire and abundance of sexual and scatological innuendo, effectively...

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

Lenaia

The Lenaia was an annual festival with a dramatic competition. It was one of the lesser festivals of Athens and Ionia in ancient Greece. The Lenaia took place in Athens in the month of Gamelion, roughly corresponding to January. The festival was in honour of Dionysos Lenaios...

. An obscure notice in a scholium on Plato

Plato

Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...

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

Aristophanes

Aristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete...

’ son Philippus. He attacked Philocrates, Callimedon, Cydias, and Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse.

Eubulus's plays are chiefly on mythological subjects and often parodies other tragic poets, especially Euripides

Euripides

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most...

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Surviving work

150 fragments (including three dubia) of his comedies survive, along with fifty-eight titles:

Ancylion Anchises Amaltheia Men Who Were Trying To Get Home Safe Antiope The Impotents Auge Bellerophon Ganymede Glaucus Daedalus Danae Deucalion Dionysius Dolon

Peace Europa Echo Ixion Ion Basket-Bearers Campylion The Man Who Was Glued To the Spot Cercopes Clepsydra The Lark Dice-Players Spartans or Leda Medea The Mill-Girl

Mysians Nannion Nausicaa Neottis Xuthus Odysseus or Men Who See Everything Oedipus Oenimaus or Pelops Olbia Orthannes Pamphilus The All-Night Festival Parmeniscus The Pentathlete Plangon

The Pimp Procris Prosousia or Cycnus Semele or Dionysus The Shoemaker Female Garland-Vendors Sphinx-Carion Titans Wet-Nurses or The Wet-Nurse Phoenix The Graces Chrysilla The Harp-Girl

The standard edition of the testimonia and fragments is found in Kassel-Austin, Poetae Comici Graeci Vol II; Kock numbers are outdated and should no longer be used. Richard L. Hunter

Richard L. Hunter

Richard Lawrence Hunter is a classical scholar and has since 2001 been the 38th Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University.-Education and academic career:Richard Hunter was born and grew up in Australia...

offers a careful study of Eupolis’ career and the fragments of his plays in Eubulus: The Fragments (Cambridge, 1983).