Ephippus of Athens

Who is Ephippus of Athens?

Ephippus of Athens was an Ancient Greek comic poet of the middle comedy.

We learn this from the testimonies of Suidas and Antiochus of Alexandria, and from the allusions in his fragments to Plato, and the Academic philosophers, and to Alexander of Pherae and his contemporaries, Dionysius the Elder, Cotys, Theodorus, and others.

The following are the known titles of his plays: Artemis, Bousiris, Gêruonês, Empolê, Ephêboi, Kirkê, Kudôn, Nauagos, Obeliaphoroi ê Homoioi, Peltastês, Sapphô, Philura. An epigram which Eustathius ascribes to Ephippus is not his, but the production of some unknown author. There are some fragments also extant from the unknown plays of Ephippus.