Il cuculo e un vecchio donnaiolo: Plauto, Asin. 923

Abstract

The cuckoo and an old ladies’ man: Plaut., Asin. 923

The habit of the gowk of laying its eggs in the nest of others birds providesan opportunity, in a passage of Plautus, to move against an old philanderer,who makes a flirt in home of a meretrix, instead of staying with his elderlywife. The present article provides a semiotic analysis of this interestingpassage.

   Alberto Borghini <d001806@polito.it>   mario.seita@unito.it