Ephippus of Athens ( Greek: Ἔφιππος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος) was an Ancient Greek comic poet of the middle comedy.

We learn this from the testimonies of Suidas ^[1] and Antiochus of Alexandria, ^[2] and from the allusions in his fragments to Plato, and the Academic philosophers, ^[3] and to Alexander of Pherae and his contemporaries, Dionysius the Elder, Cotys, Theodorus, and others. ^[4]

The following twelve titles of his plays are the known to us: Artemis, Bousiris, Gêruonês ("The Geryons"), Empolê ("Merchandise"), Ephêboi ("Adolescents"), Kirkê (" Circe"), Kudôn, Nauagos ("Shipwrecked"), Obeliaphoroi ê Homoioi, Peltastês, Sapphô, and Philura. An epigram which Eustathius ascribes to Ephippus ^[5] is not his, but the production of some unknown author. ^[6] There are some fragments also extant from the unknown plays of Ephippus. ^[7]

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