Eupolis

Eupolis yo͞o´pəlĭs [key], fl. 430–411 BC, Athenian comic poet. He seems to have collaborated with Aristophanes, whom he also attacked; another of his victims was Alcibiades. His plays, satirical and malicious, were greatly admired by the ancients. Fragments of his work survive.

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