"Aigyptiazein è una voce del verbo adoperato da Cratino e Aristofane per dileggiare sulla scena personaggi ateniesi contemporanei ricorrendo a una più o meno velata parodia nei confronti degli abitanti del Nilo"--Cover flap. "Aigyptiazein" is a verb used by Cratinus and Aristophanes in their comedy to mock contemporary Athenians by parodying, in a more or less subtle way, the inhabitants of the Nile. This work focuses on the philological reading of fragments of Greek comedy, and attempts to reconstruct the theme of Egypt in the cultural and mythic imagination of the comic poets, and in that of their audience.