Ephippus is an outstanding playwright of Greek Middle Comedy. He won a
single Lenaean victory ca. 378-376 BC and continued being productive
until the late 340s. His twenty-eight surviving fragments reveal a wide
thematic range: myth burlesque (with a special fondness for Heracles),
political allegory, sympotic themes, personal mockery, satire of
philosophy (Plato), hetairai. His corpus features seven hapax terms, as
well as the highest percentage of anapaestic dimeter lines of all poets
of Middle Comedy.