Parodias de situaciones y versos homéricos en Aristófanes

Abstract

Aristophanes often integrates in his comedies situations, complete lines, hemistichs or single words from the epic. The πάθος of such expressions powerfully contrasts with the linguistic and expressive context of his plays, and he thereafter obtains a strong comic effect. The use of verses different from the hexameter and, on the other hand, the authors' own interests acts against the litterality of the quotations. Moreover Aristophanes seems to consider Homer as the author of every epic word and, interesting enough, the presence of Homer in his comedies is more frequent than in other authors, like tragic or lyric poets, where this presence would be a priori more expectable. So Aristophanes frequently is the only witness of some Homeric expressions and topics in the litterature of the VIII-V b.C. centuries