These references form no single locus and lead us to believe that Aristophanes added them as references that serve to juxtapose the grandeur of the myth with the outrageousness of the plot of the play (which implies that the themes are somewhat parallel).[40] Birds was not influenced by any one mythic idea. Many (including foundation mythology, the myth of the golden age, the myth of Tereus and, as Dunbar notes,[41] the myth of Demeter as presented in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter) are at play here. As is argued above, Hesiod's rendering of the Prometheus story is most relevant and revealing for Birds.