Onomastì komoideîn nella parodo lirica del Pluto di Aristofane

The aim of this paper is to analyze the lyric section of the parodos of Aristophanes’ Plutus (ll. 290-321), consisting of two strophic couples, in which the dialogue between Cario and the Chorus of old farmers takes the form of a traditional rural game of im- personation. In the first couple (ll. 290-301), the slave, playing the role of Polyphemus, and the Chorus, imitating the giant’s flocks, sing a parody of a lost dithyramb by Phi- loxenus of Cythera, entitled “Cyclops or Galatea”; in the second couple (ll. 302-315), we have a suggestive intersection of mythical sphere, which focuses on the mockery of the myth of Odysseus (Cario) and his crew (the Chorus) turned into swine by Circe, and reality, with references to Philonides and Aristyllos, two contemporary Athenians.