Maricas
Eupolis
cited 2 times by 2 works in the library · not held
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Clouds Aristophanes 1 refuted 1 citation
The speaker explicitly names Eupolis's Maricas and argues against it as a base imitation, a clear act of refutation directed at a named rival work.
Eupolis, indeed, first of all craftily introduced his Maricas, having basely, base fellow, spoiled by altering my play of the Knights, having added to it, for the sake of the cordax, a drunken old woman, whom Phrynichus long ago poetized, whom the whale was for devouring.
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Nicias Plutarch 1 neutral 1 citation · 7 passages
The play Maricas and its author Eupolis are explicitly named and its dialogue reproduced.
And the personage who is held up to ridicule by Eupolis, in his Maricas, fetches in a sort of lazy pauper, and says:
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