See also:

• EUPOLIS (c. 446-411 t.c.)

EUPOLIS (c. 446-411 t.c.)  , Athenian poet of the Old See also:

• COMEDY

Comedy, flourished in the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of the Peloponnesian See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War . Nothing whatever is known of his See also:

• PERSONAL

personal See also:

• HISTORY

history . With regard to his See also:

• DEATH

death, he is said to have been thrown into the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea by See also:

• ALCIBIADES (c. 450-404 B.c.)

Alcibiades, whom he had attacked in one of his plays, but it is more likely that he died fighting for his See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country . He is ranked by See also:

• HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace (Sat. i..4, I), along with See also:

• CRATINUS (c. 520—423 B.C.)

Cratinus and See also:

• ARISTOPHANES
• ARISTOPHANES (c. 448–385 B.e.1)

Aristophanes, as the greatest writer of his school . With a lively and fertile See also:

• FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy See also:

• EUPOLIS (c. 446-411 t.c.)

Eupolis combined a See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical See also:

• JUDGMENT

judgment; he was reputed to equal Aristophanes in the elegance and purity of his diction, and Cratinus in his command of See also:

• IRONY (Gr. dipaweLa, from eipwv, one who says less than he means, eiepees, to speak)

irony and See also:

• SARCASM

sarcasm . Although he was at first on See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good terms with Aristophanes, their relations subsequently became strained, and they accused each other, in most virulent terms, of See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation and See also:

• PLAGIARISM

plagiarism . Of the 17 plays attributed to Eupolis, with which he obtained the first See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize seven times, only fragments remain . Of these the best known were: the Kolakes, in which he pilloried the spendthrift See also:

• CALLIAS

Callias, who wasted his substance on See also:

• SOPHISTS (from Gr. codtoris, literally, man of wisdom)

sophists and parasites; Maricas, an attack on Hyperbolus, the successor of See also:

• CLEON (d. 422 B.C.)

Cleon, under a fictitious name; the Baptae, against Alcibiades and his clubs, at which profligate See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign See also:

• RITES

rites were practised . Other See also:

• OBJECTS

objects of his attack were See also:

• SOCRATES

Socrates and See also:

• CIMON [Kiµwp] (c. 507-449)

Cimon . The . Demoi and Poleis were See also:

• POLITICAL

political, dealing with the desperate See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state and with the allied (or tributary) cities . Fragments in T .

See also:

• KOCK, CHARLES PAUL DE (1793-1871)

Kock, Comicorum Atticorum fragments, i . (1880) .