Eubulus (poet)
Eubulus was an Athenian Middle Comedy poet, victorious six times at the Lenaia, first probably in the late 370s or 360s BC
According to the Suda, which dates him to the 101st Olympiad 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 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 of his comedies survive, along with fifty-eight titles:- Ancylion
- Anchises
- Amaltheia
- Anasozomenoi
- Antiope
- Astytoi
- Auge
- Bellerophon
- Ganymede
- Glaucus
- Daedalus
- Danae
- Deucalion
- Dionysius
- Dolon
- Eirene
- Europa
- Echo
- Ixion
- Ion
- Kalathephoroi
- Campylion
- Katakollomenos
- Cercopes
- Clepsydra
- Korydalos
- Kybeutai
- Lakones or Leda
- Medea
- Mylothris
- Mysians
- Nannion
- Nausicaa
- Neottis
- Xuthus
- Odysseus or Panoptai
- Oedipus
- Oenimaus or Pelops
- Olbia
- Orthanes
- Pamphilus
- Pannychis
- Parmeniscus
- Pentathlos
- Plangon
- Pornoboskos
- Procris
- Prosousia or Cycnus
- Semele or Dionysus
- Skyteus
- Stephanopolides
- Sphingokarion
- Titans
- Tithai or Titthe
- Phoenix
- Charites
- Chrysilla
- Psaltria
Richard L. Hunter offers a careful study of Eubulus’ career and the fragments of his plays in Eubulus: The Fragments.