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Recensione del volume Leo Strauss, "Socrate e Aristofane", a cura di Marco Menon, Edizioni
ETS, Pisa 2019, 336 pp.

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.