The purpose of this paper is to examine the representation of death in Aristophanes' comedies, as a form of self-assertion of the comic hero, who discloses his aspiration for immortality by shifting the anguish of the death to inconsistent entities: the coal basket in the Acharnians, the gods in the Birds, or - as the protagonist of the Wasps imagines - his son's death, against the law of nature. A notable exception is the character of Strepsiades in the Clouds, marked by self-destructive traits.
