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Cephisodorus, Caphisodorus or Kephisodoros (; English language: "gift of the Cephisus") was a male Greek name.
1. Cephisodorus, an Athenian dramatist of the Old Comedy. According to Lysias, he was a comic poet who won a victory in 402 BC.Brill's New Pauly, "Cephisodorus (1)" This victory was probably in the Lenaea; around the same time Cephisodorus appears on the surviving victory lists for the City Dionysia.Capps, Edward (1900). "Chronological Studies in the Greek Tragic and Comic Poets". p.50. The Suda says that he was a tragedian, and credits him with four plays: Antilais, Amazons, Trophonius, and The Hog. The titles quoted by the Suda are comic, and so the identification of Cephisodorus as a tragedian is likely to be an error.Capps, Edward (1900). "Chronological Studies in the Greek Tragic and Comic Poets". p.51.
2. Cephisodorus, a Theban rebel and exile who accompanied Pelopidas to the house of the pro-Spartan polemarch Leontiades to kill him during the recapture of Cadmea from Spartan forces, but, being the first to encounter him, was killed by him, but Leontidas was subsequently killed by Pelopidas.Plutarch, Life of Pelopidas, Pel.11.5
3. Cephisodorus, a military commander who fought and died with Gryllus, son of Xenophon in the Battle of Mantineia in 362 BC.
4. Caphisodorus, Theban soldier and lover of General Epaminondas, both killed at the Battle of Mantinea and buried together.Plutarch, Amatorius, 761d
5. Kephisodoros, an Athenian leader who opposed Philip V during the Second Makedonian War. After allying Athens to fellow Greek powers including Attalus I of Pergamon, Ptolemy V of Egypt, the Aetolian League, Crete, and Rhodes, he travelled to Rome to request the Roman Senate for further aid against Makedon.Pausanias. Description of Greece, 1.36.5-6 The Romans sent Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus, Publius Villius Tappulus (who Pausanias calls Otilios),Pausanias. Description of Greece, 7.7.8 and Titus Quinctius Flamininus who defeated Philip V at the Battle of Cynoscephalae.
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