Ephippus of Athens () was an Ancient Greek comic poet of the middle comedy.
He is known from the testimonies of SuidasSuda ε 3929 and Antiochus of Alexandria,Athen. xi. p. 482, c. (cited by Smith) and from the allusions in his fragments to Plato, and the Academic philosophers,Athen. xi. p. 509, c. d. (cited by Smith) and to Alexander of Pherae and his contemporaries, Dionysius the Elder, Cotys, Theodorus, and others.Athen. iii. p 112, f. xi. p. 482, d. (cited by Smith)
The following twelve titles of his plays are the known to us: Artemis, Bousiris, Gêruonês ("The Geryons"), Empolê ("Merchandise"), Ephêboi ("Adolescents"), Kirkê ("Circe"), Kudôn, Nauagos ("Shipwrecked"), Obeliaphoroi ê Homoioi, Peltastês, Sapphô, and Philura. An epigram which Eustathius ascribes to Ephippusad Ilad. xi. 697, p. 879. 38 (cited by Smith) is not his, but the production of some unknown author.Comp. Athen. x. p. 442, d. (cited by Smith) There are some fragments also extant from the unknown plays of Ephippus.Meineke, Fragm. Com. Graec. vol. i. pp. 351-354, iii. pp. 322-340; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. pp. 297, 298, 440. (cited by Smith)
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