FrC 16.3 Ephippos

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.

About the author

Athina Papachrysostomou is Tenured Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at University of Patras, Greece.

Summary

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.

Foreword

This volume of the Fragmenta Comica series comments fragments of the Athenian comic poet Ephippus.

Product details

• Authors: Athina Papachrysostomou
• Publisher: Verlag Antike
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2020
• EAN: 9783946317944
• ISBN: 978-3-946317-94-4
• No. of pages: 278
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 24 mm x 233 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Fragmenta Comica
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Poetik, Athen, Antike, Griechenland, Altes Griechenland, Sprache, Linguistik, Kommödie, ca. 1000 v. Chr. bis Christi Geburt