monians, which, as Meincke observes, must refer The
Scholiasts
specify the last Parabasis of the
cither to the battle of Cynosscma (B.
cither to the battle of Cynosscma (B.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
i.
23), and
thinks it should perhaps be, Παρεκδιδομένη, which | Περί των της 'Ασσυρίας Ιουδαίων, It has been
is the title of a play of Antiphanes), Euveonbok. supposed that Eupolemus was a Jew, but from the
(Suid. s. v. ; Athen. passim : Stobaeus, Flor. xv. manner in which Josephus (L. c. ) speaks of him, we
2, xxviii. 11, xcviii. 12; Meineke, Frag. Com. must infer that he was not a Jew. (Comp. Euseb.
Graec. vol. i. pp. 477, 478, vol. iv. pp. 486– Praep. Evang. x. 17, 30; Hieronym. de illustr.
495; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 444. ) [P. S. ] Script. 38 ; Chron. Alexandr. pp. 148, 214 ; C. G.
EUPHRO'NIDES (Evopovídns), of Corinth, a A. Kuhlmey, Eupolemi fragmentu prolegom. et com-
Greek grammarian, who is mentioned among the mentar. instructa, Berlin, 1840, 8vo. )
(L. S. )
teachers of Aristophanes of Byzantium. (Suid. s. v. EUPOʻLEMUS (Evróxenos), an Argive archi
'Αριστοφάνης. )
(L. S. ) tect, who built the great Heraeum at Mycenao,
EUPHRO'NIDES, a statuary, contemporary after its destruction by fire in B. C. 423.
with Lysippus and Alexander the Great, oi. 114, entablature was ornamented with sculptures repre-
B. C. 324. (Plin. xxxiv. 8. s. 19. ) (P. S. ] senting the wars of the gods and giants, and the
EUPHRO'NIUS. (EUPHORION, No. 4. ] Trojan war. A full description of the other works
EUPHROʻSYNE. (CHARITES. )
of art connected with this temple is given by Pau-
EUPI'THIUS (Evrloos), an Athenian gram- sanias. (Paus. ii. 17. § 3; Thuc. iv. 133. ) (P. S. )
marian, the author of one epigram in the Greek EU'POLIS (Eŭrodis), son of Sosipolis, an
Anthology (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 402; Jacobs, Athenian comic poet of the old comedy, and one of
Anth. Graec. vol. ii. p. 110), which contains all the three who are distinguished by Horace, in his
we know of him, and from the contents of which, well-known line,
as well as from its title in the Vatican MS. , Toll “Eupolis, atque Cratinus, Aristophanesque poetae,"
στίξαντος την καθόλου, we learn that Eupithius above all the
had spent much grammatical labour on the punctu- " alii quorum prisca comoedia virorum est,"
ation and accentuation of the kabUALKD) spoowdía, a judgment which is confirmed by all we know of
or of Kaðónov (sc. Téxvn) of Herodian. Herodian the works of the Attic comoedians.
flourished under the emperor Marcus Antoninus. Eupolis is said to have exhibited his first drama
(Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. x. pp. 186, 187, vol. xiii. in the fourth year of the 87th Olympiad, B. C. 42%,
P. 895; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 475. ) [P. S. ] two years before Aristophanes, who was nearly of
EUPLUS (EÚtious ), an engraver of gems, the same age as Eupolis. (Anon. de Com. p. xxix. ;
whose time and country are unknown. The name Cyrill. c. Julian. i. p. 13, b. ; Syncell. Chron. p.
is seen on a gem of Love sitting on a Dolphin. 257, c. ) According to Suidas (s. v. ), Eupolis was
Some take the inscription Erno, not for the then only in the seventeenth year of his age ; he
name of the artist, but for an allusion to the sub- was therefore born in B. c. 449. (Respecting the
ject of the gem. (Bracci, Tab. 72. ) [P. S. ) supposed legal minimum of the age at which a per-
EUPOʻLEMUS (Euróneuos). 1. One of the son could produce a drama on the stage, see
generals of Cassander, was sent by him in 314 Clinton, Fast. Hell. vol. ii. Introd. pp. lvi. - Iviii. )
B. C. to invade Caria, but was surprised and taken The date of his death cannot be so easily fixed.
prisoner by Ptolemy, who commanded that pro- The common story was, that Alcibiades, when
vince for Antigonus. " (Diod. xix. 68. ) He must sailing to Sicily, threw Eupolis into the sea, in
have been liberated again directly, as the next revenge for an attack which he had made upon
year we find him commanding the forces left by him in his Bártal. But, to say nothing of the
Cassander in Greece, when he moved north ward improbability of even Alcibiades venturing on such
against Antigonus. (Diod. xix. 77. )
an outrage, or the still stranger fact of its not
The
goremments on disturid
d, representing to them
cedaemon would surely be
matters continued 29 de
hrough their assistance, í
In the election of page
himself was chosez,
en procured the appena
deas, to the companion
the service of the
tached these to bi sa
nly of the public Deze
ut of the wealth and
to banishment on the
mert step was to
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Ge murder of the
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051, sent there, as $
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of Stympialas
tly with the most
t.
Euphrate sport
naving
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dit seems te
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EUPOLIS.
EUPOMPIDAS.
||
being alluded to by Thucydides or any other trust- | abuse, for there are still extant some lines of his, in
worthy historian, the answer of Cicero is conclu- wbich Cimon is most unmercifully treated. (Plut.
sive, that Eratosthenes mentioned plays produced Cim. 15; Schol. ad Aristeid. p. 515. ) 11 is
by Eupolis after the Sicilian expedition. (Ad Att. hardly necessary to observe that these attacks were
vi. 1. ) There is still a fragment extant, in which mingled with much obscenity. (Schol. ad Aristoph.
the poet applies the title of patnyóv to Aristarchus, Puc. 741, 1142, Nub. 296, 541. )
whom we know to have been otpatnyós in the A close relation subsisted between Eupolis and
year B. C. 414, that is, four years later tban the Aristophanes, not only as rivals, but as imitators
date at which the common story fixed the of each other. Cratinus attacked Aristophanes for
death of Eupolis. (Schol. Victor. ad. Iliad. xiii. borrowing from Eupolis, and Eupolis in his Bárta
353. ) The only discoverable foundation for this made the same charge, especially with reference to
story, and probably the true account of the poet's the Knights, of which he says,
death, is the statement of Suidas, that he perished
κακείνους τους Ιππέας
at the Hellespont in the wat against the Lacedae ξυνεποίησα τη φαλακρή τούτω κάδωρησάμην.
monians, which, as Meincke observes, must refer The Scholiasts specify the last Parabasis of the
cither to the battle of Cynosscma (B. c. 411), or to Knights as borrowed from Eupolis. (Schol ad
that of Aegospotami (B. C. 405). That he died in Aristopk. Equit. 528, 1288, Nub. 544, foll. ) On
the former baitle is not improbable, since we never the other hand, Aristophanes, in the second (or
hear of his exhibiting after B. C. 412 ; and if so, it third) edition of the Clouds, retorts upon Eu-
is very likely that the enemies of Alcibiades might polis the charge of imitating the Knights in his
charge him with taking advantage of the confusion Maricas (Nub. l. c. ), and taunts him with the
of the battle to gratify his revenge. Meineke further indignity of jesting on his rival's baldness.
throws out a conjecture that the story may have There are other examples of the attacks of the two
arisen from a misunderstanding of what Lysias poets upon one another. (Aristoph. Paz, 762,
says about the young Alcibiades (i. p. 541). There and Schol. ; Schol. ad Vesp. 1020; Schol ad
are, however, other accounts of the poet's death, Platon. p. 331, Bekker ; Stobaeus, Serm. iv. p.
which are altogether different. Aelian (N. A. x. 53. )
41) and Tzetzes (Chil. iv. 245) relate, that he died The number of the plays of Eupolis is stated by
and was buried in Aegina, and Pausanias (ii. 7. Suidas at seventeen, and by the anonymous writer
§ 4) says, that he saw his tomb in the territory of at fourteen. The extant titles exceed the greater
Sicyon. Of the personal history of Eupolis nothing of these numbers, but some of them are very
more is known. Aelian (l. c. ) tells a pleasant tale doubtful. The following fifteen are considered by
of his faithful dog, Augeas, and his slave Ephialtes. Meineke to be genuine : Alyes, 'ArtpáTEUTOL 1
The chief characteristic of the poetry of Eupolis 'Ανδρογύναι, Αυτόλυκος, Βάπται, Δήμοι, Διαιτών,
seems to have been the liveliness of his fancy, and Είλωτες, Κόλακες, Μαρικάς, Νουμηνίαι, Πόλεις,
the power which he possessed of imparting its Προσπάλτιοι, Ταξίαρχος, Υβριστοδίκαι, Χρυσουν
images to the audience. This characteristic of his yévos. An analysis of these plays, so far as their
genius influenced his choice of subjects, as well as subjects can be ascertained, will be found in the
his mode of treating them, so that he not only ap- works quoted below, and especially in that of
pears to have chosen subjects which other poets Meineke. The following are the plays of Eupolis,
might have despaired of dramatizing, but we are the dates of which are known :-
expressly told that he wrought into the body of his B. C. 425. At the Lenaea. Novunviau. Third
plays those serious political views which other
Prize. 1st. Aristophanes, 'Axapveis.
poets expounded in their parabases, as in the
2nd. Cratinus, Xecuacoméra.
anuoi, in which he represented the legislators of 423 or 422. 'Αστράτευτοι,
other times conferring on the administration of the 421. Mapirâs. Probably at the Lenaea.
To do this in a genuine Attic old comedy,
Kótakes. At the great Dionysia.
without converting the comedy into a serious phi-
First Prize. 2nd. Aristoph. Eipnun.
losophic dialogue, must have been a great triumph 420. Αυτόλυκος.
of dramatic art. (Platon, de Div. Char. p. xxvi. ) Eupolis, like Aristophanes and other comic
This introduction of deceased persons on the stage poets, brought some of his plays on the stage in
appears to have given to the plays of Enpolis a the name of another person, Apollodorus. (Athen,
certain dignity, which would have been inconsistent v. p. 216, d. )
with the comic spirit had it not been relieved by Hephaestion (p. 109, ed. Gaisf. ) mentions a
the most graceful and clever merriment. (Platon. peculiar choriambic metre, which was called Eu-
1. c. ) In elegance he is said to have even sur- polidean, and which was also used by the poets of
passed Aristophanes (Ibid. ; Macrob. Sat. vii. 5), the middle and of the new comedy.
while in bitter jesting and personal abuse he The names of Eupolis and Eubulus are often
emulated Cratinus. (Anon. de Com. p. xxix. ; confounded.
Pers. Sat. i. 124 ; Lucian. Jov. Acc. vol. ii. p. 832. ) (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. pp. 445–448 ;
Among the objects of his satire was Socrates, on Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. pp. 104—146,
whom he made a bitter, though less elaborate vol. ii. pp. 426–579 ; Bergk, Comment. de Relig.
attack than that in the Clouds of Aristophanes. Com. Att. Ant. pp. 332-366; Clinton, Fast.
(Schol. ad Aristoph. Nub. 97, 180; Etym. Mag. p. 18. Hellen. vol. ii. sub annis. )
(P. S. )
10; Lucian. Pisc. vol. i. p. 595. ) Innocence seems EUPO'MPIDAS (Eůrouridas), son of Daïma-
to have afforded no shelter, for he attacked Auto- chus, one of the commanders in Plataea during its
lycus, who is said to have been guilty of no crime, siege by the Lacedaemonians, B. C. 429—8. He
and is only known as having been distinguished with Theaenetus, a prophet, in the winter follow-
for his beauty, and as a victor in the pancratium, ing this second year, devised the celebrated plan
as vehemently as Callias, Alcibiades, Melanthius, for passing the lines of circumvallation, which, ori-
and others. Nor were the dead exempt from his ginally intended for the whole number of the be
state.
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EURIPIDES.
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sieged, was in the end successfully executed by but was pursued and defeated by Lycus, the
212 of them, under the guidance of the same two lieutenant-general of the Achaeans. (Polyb. iv.
leaders. (Thuc. iii. 20—23. ) (A. H. C. ) 19, 59, 69–72, v. 94, 95. )
(E. E. )
EUPOMPUS (EÚToutos), of Sicyon, one of EURIPIDES (Euperions). J. A tragic poet
the most distinguished Greek painters, was the of Athens, is mentioned by Suidas as having
contemporary of Zeuxis, Parrhasius, and Timanthes, flourished earlier than his more celebrated name
and the instructor of Pamphilus, the master of sake. He was the author of twelve plays, two of
A pelles. He was beld in such esteem by his con- which gnined the prize. (Suid. s. o. Eúperidos. )
temporaries, that a new division was made of the 2. The distinguished tragic writer, of the Athe-
schools of art, and he was placed at the head of nian demus of Phlya in the Cecropid tribe, or, as
one of them. Formerly only two schools had been others state it, of Phyle in the tribe Oeneïs, was
recognized, the Greek Proper or Helladic, and the the son of Mnesarchus and Cleito, and was born in
Asiatic; but the fame of Eupompus led to the B. C. 485, according to the date of the Arundel
creation of a new school, the Sicyonian, as a branch marble, for the adoption of which Hartung con-
of the Helladic, and the division then adopted was tends. (Eur. Restitutus, p. 5, &c. ) This testi-
the Ionian, the Sicyonian, and the Attic, the last mony, however, is outweighed by the other
of which had, no doubt, Apollodorus for its head. statements on the subject, from which it ap-
Another instance of the influence of Eupompus is pears that his parents were among those who, on
his celebrated answer to Lysippus, who, at the be the invasion of Xerxes, had fled from Athens to
ginning of his career, asked the great painter whom Salamis (Herod. vii. 41), and that the poet was
he should take for his model; and Eupompus born in that island in B. C. 480. (See Clinton,
answered that he ought to imitate nature herself, sub anno. ) Nor need we with Müller (Greek
and no single artist. The only work of Eupompus Literature, p. 358) set it down at once as a mere
which is mentioned is a victor in the games carry- legend that his birth took place on the very day of
ing a palm. (Plin. xxxiv.
thinks it should perhaps be, Παρεκδιδομένη, which | Περί των της 'Ασσυρίας Ιουδαίων, It has been
is the title of a play of Antiphanes), Euveonbok. supposed that Eupolemus was a Jew, but from the
(Suid. s. v. ; Athen. passim : Stobaeus, Flor. xv. manner in which Josephus (L. c. ) speaks of him, we
2, xxviii. 11, xcviii. 12; Meineke, Frag. Com. must infer that he was not a Jew. (Comp. Euseb.
Graec. vol. i. pp. 477, 478, vol. iv. pp. 486– Praep. Evang. x. 17, 30; Hieronym. de illustr.
495; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 444. ) [P. S. ] Script. 38 ; Chron. Alexandr. pp. 148, 214 ; C. G.
EUPHRO'NIDES (Evopovídns), of Corinth, a A. Kuhlmey, Eupolemi fragmentu prolegom. et com-
Greek grammarian, who is mentioned among the mentar. instructa, Berlin, 1840, 8vo. )
(L. S. )
teachers of Aristophanes of Byzantium. (Suid. s. v. EUPOʻLEMUS (Evróxenos), an Argive archi
'Αριστοφάνης. )
(L. S. ) tect, who built the great Heraeum at Mycenao,
EUPHRO'NIDES, a statuary, contemporary after its destruction by fire in B. C. 423.
with Lysippus and Alexander the Great, oi. 114, entablature was ornamented with sculptures repre-
B. C. 324. (Plin. xxxiv. 8. s. 19. ) (P. S. ] senting the wars of the gods and giants, and the
EUPHRO'NIUS. (EUPHORION, No. 4. ] Trojan war. A full description of the other works
EUPHROʻSYNE. (CHARITES. )
of art connected with this temple is given by Pau-
EUPI'THIUS (Evrloos), an Athenian gram- sanias. (Paus. ii. 17. § 3; Thuc. iv. 133. ) (P. S. )
marian, the author of one epigram in the Greek EU'POLIS (Eŭrodis), son of Sosipolis, an
Anthology (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 402; Jacobs, Athenian comic poet of the old comedy, and one of
Anth. Graec. vol. ii. p. 110), which contains all the three who are distinguished by Horace, in his
we know of him, and from the contents of which, well-known line,
as well as from its title in the Vatican MS. , Toll “Eupolis, atque Cratinus, Aristophanesque poetae,"
στίξαντος την καθόλου, we learn that Eupithius above all the
had spent much grammatical labour on the punctu- " alii quorum prisca comoedia virorum est,"
ation and accentuation of the kabUALKD) spoowdía, a judgment which is confirmed by all we know of
or of Kaðónov (sc. Téxvn) of Herodian. Herodian the works of the Attic comoedians.
flourished under the emperor Marcus Antoninus. Eupolis is said to have exhibited his first drama
(Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. x. pp. 186, 187, vol. xiii. in the fourth year of the 87th Olympiad, B. C. 42%,
P. 895; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 475. ) [P. S. ] two years before Aristophanes, who was nearly of
EUPLUS (EÚtious ), an engraver of gems, the same age as Eupolis. (Anon. de Com. p. xxix. ;
whose time and country are unknown. The name Cyrill. c. Julian. i. p. 13, b. ; Syncell. Chron. p.
is seen on a gem of Love sitting on a Dolphin. 257, c. ) According to Suidas (s. v. ), Eupolis was
Some take the inscription Erno, not for the then only in the seventeenth year of his age ; he
name of the artist, but for an allusion to the sub- was therefore born in B. c. 449. (Respecting the
ject of the gem. (Bracci, Tab. 72. ) [P. S. ) supposed legal minimum of the age at which a per-
EUPOʻLEMUS (Euróneuos). 1. One of the son could produce a drama on the stage, see
generals of Cassander, was sent by him in 314 Clinton, Fast. Hell. vol. ii. Introd. pp. lvi. - Iviii. )
B. C. to invade Caria, but was surprised and taken The date of his death cannot be so easily fixed.
prisoner by Ptolemy, who commanded that pro- The common story was, that Alcibiades, when
vince for Antigonus. " (Diod. xix. 68. ) He must sailing to Sicily, threw Eupolis into the sea, in
have been liberated again directly, as the next revenge for an attack which he had made upon
year we find him commanding the forces left by him in his Bártal. But, to say nothing of the
Cassander in Greece, when he moved north ward improbability of even Alcibiades venturing on such
against Antigonus. (Diod. xix. 77. )
an outrage, or the still stranger fact of its not
The
goremments on disturid
d, representing to them
cedaemon would surely be
matters continued 29 de
hrough their assistance, í
In the election of page
himself was chosez,
en procured the appena
deas, to the companion
the service of the
tached these to bi sa
nly of the public Deze
ut of the wealth and
to banishment on the
mert step was to
und having effected
Ge murder of the
He w28 DOL ISF
for the citace z
051, sent there, as $
atic rerolula;
2g with that can
robably in Bcji
was azia estat
of Stympialas
tly with the most
t.
Euphrate sport
naving
er Pasimelus, des
any protiscons
dit seems te
vetked in a bo
till continuing
from Atbass
- was az
:
sent to
Iterests of La
## p. 102 (#118) ############################################
102
EUPOLIS.
EUPOMPIDAS.
||
being alluded to by Thucydides or any other trust- | abuse, for there are still extant some lines of his, in
worthy historian, the answer of Cicero is conclu- wbich Cimon is most unmercifully treated. (Plut.
sive, that Eratosthenes mentioned plays produced Cim. 15; Schol. ad Aristeid. p. 515. ) 11 is
by Eupolis after the Sicilian expedition. (Ad Att. hardly necessary to observe that these attacks were
vi. 1. ) There is still a fragment extant, in which mingled with much obscenity. (Schol. ad Aristoph.
the poet applies the title of patnyóv to Aristarchus, Puc. 741, 1142, Nub. 296, 541. )
whom we know to have been otpatnyós in the A close relation subsisted between Eupolis and
year B. C. 414, that is, four years later tban the Aristophanes, not only as rivals, but as imitators
date at which the common story fixed the of each other. Cratinus attacked Aristophanes for
death of Eupolis. (Schol. Victor. ad. Iliad. xiii. borrowing from Eupolis, and Eupolis in his Bárta
353. ) The only discoverable foundation for this made the same charge, especially with reference to
story, and probably the true account of the poet's the Knights, of which he says,
death, is the statement of Suidas, that he perished
κακείνους τους Ιππέας
at the Hellespont in the wat against the Lacedae ξυνεποίησα τη φαλακρή τούτω κάδωρησάμην.
monians, which, as Meincke observes, must refer The Scholiasts specify the last Parabasis of the
cither to the battle of Cynosscma (B. c. 411), or to Knights as borrowed from Eupolis. (Schol ad
that of Aegospotami (B. C. 405). That he died in Aristopk. Equit. 528, 1288, Nub. 544, foll. ) On
the former baitle is not improbable, since we never the other hand, Aristophanes, in the second (or
hear of his exhibiting after B. C. 412 ; and if so, it third) edition of the Clouds, retorts upon Eu-
is very likely that the enemies of Alcibiades might polis the charge of imitating the Knights in his
charge him with taking advantage of the confusion Maricas (Nub. l. c. ), and taunts him with the
of the battle to gratify his revenge. Meineke further indignity of jesting on his rival's baldness.
throws out a conjecture that the story may have There are other examples of the attacks of the two
arisen from a misunderstanding of what Lysias poets upon one another. (Aristoph. Paz, 762,
says about the young Alcibiades (i. p. 541). There and Schol. ; Schol. ad Vesp. 1020; Schol ad
are, however, other accounts of the poet's death, Platon. p. 331, Bekker ; Stobaeus, Serm. iv. p.
which are altogether different. Aelian (N. A. x. 53. )
41) and Tzetzes (Chil. iv. 245) relate, that he died The number of the plays of Eupolis is stated by
and was buried in Aegina, and Pausanias (ii. 7. Suidas at seventeen, and by the anonymous writer
§ 4) says, that he saw his tomb in the territory of at fourteen. The extant titles exceed the greater
Sicyon. Of the personal history of Eupolis nothing of these numbers, but some of them are very
more is known. Aelian (l. c. ) tells a pleasant tale doubtful. The following fifteen are considered by
of his faithful dog, Augeas, and his slave Ephialtes. Meineke to be genuine : Alyes, 'ArtpáTEUTOL 1
The chief characteristic of the poetry of Eupolis 'Ανδρογύναι, Αυτόλυκος, Βάπται, Δήμοι, Διαιτών,
seems to have been the liveliness of his fancy, and Είλωτες, Κόλακες, Μαρικάς, Νουμηνίαι, Πόλεις,
the power which he possessed of imparting its Προσπάλτιοι, Ταξίαρχος, Υβριστοδίκαι, Χρυσουν
images to the audience. This characteristic of his yévos. An analysis of these plays, so far as their
genius influenced his choice of subjects, as well as subjects can be ascertained, will be found in the
his mode of treating them, so that he not only ap- works quoted below, and especially in that of
pears to have chosen subjects which other poets Meineke. The following are the plays of Eupolis,
might have despaired of dramatizing, but we are the dates of which are known :-
expressly told that he wrought into the body of his B. C. 425. At the Lenaea. Novunviau. Third
plays those serious political views which other
Prize. 1st. Aristophanes, 'Axapveis.
poets expounded in their parabases, as in the
2nd. Cratinus, Xecuacoméra.
anuoi, in which he represented the legislators of 423 or 422. 'Αστράτευτοι,
other times conferring on the administration of the 421. Mapirâs. Probably at the Lenaea.
To do this in a genuine Attic old comedy,
Kótakes. At the great Dionysia.
without converting the comedy into a serious phi-
First Prize. 2nd. Aristoph. Eipnun.
losophic dialogue, must have been a great triumph 420. Αυτόλυκος.
of dramatic art. (Platon, de Div. Char. p. xxvi. ) Eupolis, like Aristophanes and other comic
This introduction of deceased persons on the stage poets, brought some of his plays on the stage in
appears to have given to the plays of Enpolis a the name of another person, Apollodorus. (Athen,
certain dignity, which would have been inconsistent v. p. 216, d. )
with the comic spirit had it not been relieved by Hephaestion (p. 109, ed. Gaisf. ) mentions a
the most graceful and clever merriment. (Platon. peculiar choriambic metre, which was called Eu-
1. c. ) In elegance he is said to have even sur- polidean, and which was also used by the poets of
passed Aristophanes (Ibid. ; Macrob. Sat. vii. 5), the middle and of the new comedy.
while in bitter jesting and personal abuse he The names of Eupolis and Eubulus are often
emulated Cratinus. (Anon. de Com. p. xxix. ; confounded.
Pers. Sat. i. 124 ; Lucian. Jov. Acc. vol. ii. p. 832. ) (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. pp. 445–448 ;
Among the objects of his satire was Socrates, on Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. pp. 104—146,
whom he made a bitter, though less elaborate vol. ii. pp. 426–579 ; Bergk, Comment. de Relig.
attack than that in the Clouds of Aristophanes. Com. Att. Ant. pp. 332-366; Clinton, Fast.
(Schol. ad Aristoph. Nub. 97, 180; Etym. Mag. p. 18. Hellen. vol. ii. sub annis. )
(P. S. )
10; Lucian. Pisc. vol. i. p. 595. ) Innocence seems EUPO'MPIDAS (Eůrouridas), son of Daïma-
to have afforded no shelter, for he attacked Auto- chus, one of the commanders in Plataea during its
lycus, who is said to have been guilty of no crime, siege by the Lacedaemonians, B. C. 429—8. He
and is only known as having been distinguished with Theaenetus, a prophet, in the winter follow-
for his beauty, and as a victor in the pancratium, ing this second year, devised the celebrated plan
as vehemently as Callias, Alcibiades, Melanthius, for passing the lines of circumvallation, which, ori-
and others. Nor were the dead exempt from his ginally intended for the whole number of the be
state.
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sieged, was in the end successfully executed by but was pursued and defeated by Lycus, the
212 of them, under the guidance of the same two lieutenant-general of the Achaeans. (Polyb. iv.
leaders. (Thuc. iii. 20—23. ) (A. H. C. ) 19, 59, 69–72, v. 94, 95. )
(E. E. )
EUPOMPUS (EÚToutos), of Sicyon, one of EURIPIDES (Euperions). J. A tragic poet
the most distinguished Greek painters, was the of Athens, is mentioned by Suidas as having
contemporary of Zeuxis, Parrhasius, and Timanthes, flourished earlier than his more celebrated name
and the instructor of Pamphilus, the master of sake. He was the author of twelve plays, two of
A pelles. He was beld in such esteem by his con- which gnined the prize. (Suid. s. o. Eúperidos. )
temporaries, that a new division was made of the 2. The distinguished tragic writer, of the Athe-
schools of art, and he was placed at the head of nian demus of Phlya in the Cecropid tribe, or, as
one of them. Formerly only two schools had been others state it, of Phyle in the tribe Oeneïs, was
recognized, the Greek Proper or Helladic, and the the son of Mnesarchus and Cleito, and was born in
Asiatic; but the fame of Eupompus led to the B. C. 485, according to the date of the Arundel
creation of a new school, the Sicyonian, as a branch marble, for the adoption of which Hartung con-
of the Helladic, and the division then adopted was tends. (Eur. Restitutus, p. 5, &c. ) This testi-
the Ionian, the Sicyonian, and the Attic, the last mony, however, is outweighed by the other
of which had, no doubt, Apollodorus for its head. statements on the subject, from which it ap-
Another instance of the influence of Eupompus is pears that his parents were among those who, on
his celebrated answer to Lysippus, who, at the be the invasion of Xerxes, had fled from Athens to
ginning of his career, asked the great painter whom Salamis (Herod. vii. 41), and that the poet was
he should take for his model; and Eupompus born in that island in B. C. 480. (See Clinton,
answered that he ought to imitate nature herself, sub anno. ) Nor need we with Müller (Greek
and no single artist. The only work of Eupompus Literature, p. 358) set it down at once as a mere
which is mentioned is a victor in the games carry- legend that his birth took place on the very day of
ing a palm. (Plin. xxxiv.
