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Old Comedy offers various testimonies of the folkloric motif of Cockaigne, present in a series of fragments gathered by Athenaeus of Naucratis in the sixth book of . This article studies the fundamental features of this topic through the analysis of the fragments, while trying to determine the purpose for which the comic writers use it, as the basis for a political satire in some cases and as an escape from reality in others.

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La comédie ancienne offre plusieurs témoignages du motif populaire du pays de cocagne, présent dans une série de fragments recueillis par Athénée de Naucratis au livre VI des . Cet article étudie les traits fondamentaux de ce thème à travers l’analyse des fragments ; en même temps, il cherche à déterminer dans quel but il est utilisé par les divers auteurs comiques, comme base pour la satire politique dans certains cas et comme évasion hors de la réalité dans d’autres.

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