This contribution, which offers a re-reading of the parodos of Aristophanes’Pluto also in the light of the scholiastic tradition, mainly focuses on the analysis of vv. 290-301, that have always been interpreted as a parody of the Cyclops of Philoxenus. The article intends to highlight, on the one hand, the innovative elements introduced by the dithyrambographer in the traditional myth of Polyphemus; on the other, it investigates the modalities of the parodic resumption of the famous dithyramb in the comedy of Aristophanes.