Burrow, Edward John: The Elgin marbles: with an abridged historical and topographical account of Athens (Band 1): Illustrated with forty plates (London, 1817)

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One of the most eminent comic writers of
Athens, was Eupolis, who flourished about Eupoiis.
the year A.C. 440. He attached himself to
the theatre from the age of seventeen, and
was several times crowned, as the victor in
dramatic contests. It has been said, that Al-
cibiades procured his death, in revenge for
having been made by him the subject of some N
calumnious verses; but, with much greater
probability, that he was killed in a naval bat-
tle with the Lacedaemonians; since his fellow-
citizens, on the occasion of his death, made a
decree to exempt poets in future from bear-
ing arms. A small work entitled u Sent entice"
is all that remains of his compositions. Plu-
tarch mentions a play by him, the "Marica "
from which he quotes a passage, relative to
the character of Nicias.

Musicians.
One of the tutors of Pericles, whose name
'thelat- was Damon, combined in his instructions the Damon.

^ sister accomplishments of Poetry and Music.

He was born at Oa, a village of Attica, and
was learned in politics, philosophy, and

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