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Eupolis

Discussion Runkel 1829. 182
Assignment to known plays Assigned by Runkel to Heildtes.
Citation context Traced by Theodoridis to Diogenianus. Hsch. σ 702
σιοκόρος· νεωκόρος. θεοκόρος, θεραπευτής θεών may be a fuller version
of the same material (but corrupt in a different manner) (likewise traced to
Diogenianus by Hansen).
Text θεοκόλος (“caretaker of a god” vel sim.·, cf. βουκόλος, “cowherd”, the
second element being < πέλομαι), θεηκόλος and cognates are well attested in
inscriptions as early as the late 7th/early 6th century (IvO 1.6; further citations
in LSJ s.vv.); θεοκόρος is unknown outside of Hesychius (whence Kaibel’s
σιοκόρος) and would seem to suggest “god-sweeper” (< κορέω; cf. νεωκόρος).
σιός is the Laconian form of θεός (e. g. Alcm. PMG 56.2; Ar. Lys. 81, 86,1298; X.
HG 4.4.10; Lac. 13.2; see Colvin 1999. 156, 169), and Ossan was thus probably
right to see an early, dialectal version of the former word preserved here,
although the expected form is σιόπολος (like α’ίπολος, άμφίπολος, πρόπολος,
etc.). For further discussion of both the office and the title, Burrell 2004. 3-5
(with further bibliography).
Interpretation A νεωκόρος is a temple attendant, subordinate to the priest or
priestess, if there is one, and generally charged with menial, practical duties,
like those handled by the title character in Euripides’ Ion; cf. Ar. Pl. 668-71
(called πρόπολος); Pl. Lg. 759a-b, 953a; Herod. 4.41 with Headlam 1922 ad
loc.·, ThesCRA V 57-8. Given the presence of Doric-speaking characters in
Heildtes (e. g. fr. 147 with n.), it is a reasonable if unproveable assumption that
this fragment belongs to that play. Whether the character was discussing
matters at home (using appropriate Spartan terminology) or in Athens (using
a Spartan term for something Athenians would call by a different name) is
impossible to say.

fr. 481 K.-A. (445 K.)
Phot, σ 327
σκιάς καί σκιάδειον· έν ώι ό Διόνυσος κάθηται. οϋτως Εϋπολις
ski as and skiadeion: what Dionysus sits in. Thus Eupolis
Discussion Wilamowitz 1880. 66; Kaibel ap. K.-A.
Assignment to known plays Attributed to Taxiarchoi by Wilamowitz. Kaibel
objected that Dionysus seems to have been presented in a different way in