the immoral in their comedies.<ref>Horace, Sermones" 1.4.1ff</ref> Persius addressed his works to those inspired by "bold Cratinus", "angry Eupolis", and "the grand old man" (Aristophanes). The Saturnalia by Macrobius mentions: "Everyone knows Eupolis, who must be considered among the elegant poets of Old Comedy." Eupolis combined a lively and fertile imagination with sound practical judgment. He was reputed to equal Aristophanes in the elegance and purity of his diction, and Cratinus in his command of irony and sarcasm. Notes References Sources Braun, Thomas. (2000). The Choice of Dead Politicians in Eupolis's Demoi: Themistocles' Exile, Hero-cult and Delayed Rehabilitation, Pericles and the Origins of the Peloponnesian War. In The Rivals of Aristophanes: Studies in Athenian Old Comedy. Edited by David Harvey and John Wilkins, 191–231. London: Duckworth and the Classical Press of Wales. Lozanova, Vanya. (1996). "Eupolis' Comedy Baptai and Some Religious Aspects of the Policy of Alcibiades." In New Studies on the Black Sea Littoral. Edited by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, 31–40. Colloquia Pontica 1. Oxford: Oxbow. Marshall, Christopher W., and George A. Kovacs, eds. (2012). No Laughing Matter: Studies in Athenian Comedy. London: Bloomsbury. Nesselrath, Hans-Günther. (2000). "Eupolis and the Periodization of Athenian Comedy." In The Rivals of Aristophanes: Studies in Athenian Old Comedy. Edited by David Harvey and John Wilkins, 233–246. London: Duckworth and the Classical Press of Wales. Parker, Letitia P. E. (1988). Eupolis the Unruly. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 34:115–122. Rosen, Ralph M. (1998). "The Gendered Polis in Eupolis' Cities." In The City as Comedy. Society and Representation in Athenian Drama. Edited by Gregory Dobrov. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Ruffell, Ian A. (2000). "The World Turned Upside Down: Utopia and Utopianism in the Fragments of Old Comedy." In The Rivals of Aristophanes: Studies in Athenian Old Comedy. Edited by David Harvey and John Wilkins, 473-506. London: Duckworth and the Classical Press of Wales. Sidwell, Keith. (1993). "Authorial Collaboration? Aristophanes' Knights and Eupolis." Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 34.4: 365-389. Wright, Matthew. (2007). "Comedy and the Trojan War." The Classical Quarterly, 57(2), 412-431. Zimmermann, Bernhard. (2000). "Lyric in the Fragments of Old Comedy." In The Rivals of Aristophanes: Studies in Athenian Old Comedy. Edited by David Harvey and John Wilkins, 273-284. London: Duckworth and the Classical Press of Wales. External links English translation of Eupolis, The Demes : Denys Page, Select Papyri III: Literary Papyri, 1941, at attalus.org 444 fragments of Eupolis (Ancient