9

Preface
Although this is properly the first volume of my study of the literary remains
of the Athenian comic playwright Eupolis, it is also the third to appear, FrC 8.3
(containing a text and commentary on the fragments without play-title) hav-
ing been printed in 2014, FrC 8.2 (treating frr. 147-325) in 2016. The advantage
of working backwards in this fashion is that I was able to come to grips
with the entire corpus before producing the general introduction with which
this volume begins. The order in which the books appeared has nonetheless
meant that addenda and corrections in FrC 8.2 and FrC 8.3 appear at the end
of FrC 8.1 rather than at the end of FrC 8.3 (with corrections of FrC 8.1 and
FrC 8.2), where the reader would normally expect them. My apologies to those
who find this arrangement confusing.
When I came to Freiburg with a Humboldt Research Award in the fall of
2011,1 had little understanding of the Heidelberg Academy Komfrag project
and no expectation that my life would soon be caught up so wholly within it.
The years since then have been enormously enriching both academically and
personally, and I am grateful for all the opportunities extended to me. In par-
ticular, I would like once again to extend my thanks to Bernhard Zimmermann
for his leadership of the Komfrag project, and to Stelios Chronopoulos for
guiding these complicated documents through the production process. My
own work on Eupolis builds not only on the magisterial Kassel-Austin edition
of the fragmentary comic poets, but also on more recent studies by Storey,
Telo and Napolitano. Although I frequently disagree with these scholars on
matters both large and small, I have learned a great deal from all of them and
thus stand to a considerable extent on their shoulders.
The majority of the work on this volume was completed during the 2015—
2016 academic year, for most of which I was a Senior Fellow at the Freiburg
Institute for Advanced Studies and a Marie Curie Fellow of the European
Union. Final copy was prepared at the Helsinki Collegium, where I was a
Core Fellow for the 2016-2017 academic year. I am grateful to the College of
Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota for modifying my normal teaching
responsibilities to allow me to accept these fellowships.
This volume is dedicated to Benjamin Millis, a good friend and the best
classical philologist I have ever known.

Helsinki, 6 April 2017