A drive circuit for driving an electro-optical device where the scanning-line driving unit and the data-line driving unit drive, in a surface inversion manner, with a first cycle, the pixel portions in odd partial surfaces in a direction parallel to the data lines among 2M (where M is a natural number) partial surfaces resulting from dividing the display surface by division lines corresponding to the scanning lines, each partial surface including n (where n is a natural number greater than or equal to 2) scanning lines, and drive the pixel portions in even partial surfaces among the 2M partial surfaces in the surface inversion manner with a second cycle complementary to the first cycle.