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See also: Comedy, flourished in the See also: time of the Peloponnesian War
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Nothing whatever is known of his See also: personal See also: history
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With regard to his See also: death, he is said to have been thrown into the See also: sea by See also: Alcibiades, whom he had attacked in one of his plays, but it is more likely that he died fighting for his country
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He is ranked by Horace (Sat. i..4, I), along with See also: Cratinus and Aristophanes, as the greatest writer of his school
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With a lively and fertile fancy See also: Eupolis combined a See also: sound See also: practical See also: judgment; he was reputed to equal Aristophanes in the elegance and purity of his diction, and Cratinus in his command of irony and See also: sarcasm
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Although he was at first on See also: good terms with Aristophanes, their relations subsequently became strained, and they accused each other, in most virulent terms, of imitation and See also: plagiarism
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Of the 17 plays attributed to Eupolis, with which he obtained the first prize seven times, only fragments remain
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Of these the best known were: the Kolakes, in which he pilloried the spendthrift See also: Callias, who wasted his substance on sophists and parasites; Maricas, an attack on Hyperbolus, the successor of See also: Cleon, under a fictitious name; the Baptae, against Alcibiades and his clubs, at which profligate See also: foreign See also: rites were practised
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Other See also: objects of his attack were See also: Socrates and See also: Cimon
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The
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Demoi and Poleis were See also: political, dealing with the desperate condition of the See also: state and with the allied (or tributary) cities
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Fragments in T
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See also: Kock, Comicorum Atticorum fragments, i
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