FrC 16.3 Ephippos
Athina Papachrysostomou
Barcode 9783946317944
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Release Date: 16/12/2020
Genre: Literary Criticism
Label: Verlag Antike
Language: English
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG
Ephippus is an outstanding playwright of Greek Middle Comedy. He won a single Lenaean victory ca. 378-376 BC and continued being productive until the late 340s. His twenty-eight surviving fragments reveal a wide thematic range: myth burlesque (with a special fondness for Heracles), political allegory, sympotic themes, personal mockery, satire of philosophy (Plato), hetairai. His corpus features seven hapax terms, as well as the highest percentage of anapaestic dimeter lines of all poets of Middle Comedy.