Parodia e comicità nell’episodio del Poeta negli Uccelli di Aristofane (vv. 904-957)

The paper presents some new considerations about the wandering poet’s scene in Aristophanes’ Birds (904-953) and tries to analyse both the comic devices and the meaning of the references to Homer, Simonides and Pindar made by the poor poet on the stage. At the end, the paper addresses the central issue of Aristophanes’ opinion about the great choral lyric poets of the recent past and argues that they are not blamed nor mocked by the dramatist, in sharp contrast to their inadequate successors.