Eubulus (, Euboulos) was an Athenian Middle Comedy poet, victorious six times at the Lenaia, first probably in the late 370s or 360s BC (IG II2 2325.144; just before Ephippus)
According to the Suda (test. 1), which dates him to the 101st Olympiad (i.e. 376/2) and identifies him as "on the border between the Middle and the Old Comedy", he produced 104 comedies and won six victories at the Lenaia. An obscure notice in a scholium on Plato (test. 4) appears to suggest that some of his plays were staged by Aristophanes’ son Philippus. He attacked Philocrates, Callimedon, Cydias, and Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse.
Eubulus's plays were chiefly about mythological subjects and often parodied the tragic playwrights, especially Euripides.
Surviving titles and fragments 150 fragments (including three dubia) of his comedies survive, along with fifty-eight titles:
Ancylion Anchises Amaltheia Anasozomenoi ("Men Who Were Trying To Get Home Safe") Antiope Astytoi ("Impotent Men") Auge Bellerophon Ganymede Glaucus Daedalus Danae Deucalion Dionysius Dolon Eirene ("Peace") Europa Echo Ixion Ion Kalathephoroi ("Basket-Bearers") Campylion Katakollomenos ("The Man Who Was Glued To the Spot") Cercopes Clepsydra Korydalos ("The Lark") Kybeutai ("Dice-Players") Lakones ("Spartans") or Leda Medea Mylothris ("The Mill-Girl") Mysians Nannion Nausicaa Neottis Xuthus Odysseus or Panoptai ("Men Who See Everything") Oedipus Oenimaus or Pelops Olbia Orthanes Pamphilus Pannychis ("The All-Night Festival") Parmeniscus Pentathlos ("The Pentathlete") Plangon Pornoboskos ("The Pimp") Procris Prosousia or Cycnus Semele or Dionysus Skyteus ("The Shoemaker") Stephanopolides ("Female Garland-Vendors") Sphingokarion ("Sphinx-Carion") Titans Tithai or Titthe ("Wet-Nurses" or Wet-Nurse") Phoenix Charites ("The Graces") Chrysilla Psaltria ("The Harp-Girl")
The standard edition of the fragments and testimonia is in Rudolf Kassel and Colin François Lloyd Austin's Poetae Comici Graeci Vol. V. The eight-volume Poetae Comici Graeci produced from 1983 to 2001 replaces the outdated collections , Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta by Theodor Kock (1880-1888) and Comicorum Graecorum Fragmenta by Georg Kaibel (1899).
Richard L. Hunter offers a careful study of Eubulus’ career and the fragments of his plays in Eubulus: The Fragments.
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