Description: It is well known that ancient Greek comedy is interested in food and wine. Many plays conclude with a feast: further, they were produced at festivals of Dionysos where eating and drinking took place. This book explains the importance of food to comedy: it was a medium through which comedy could represent the material, social, agricultural, political and religious worlds to the Greek city-state. Comedy was a powerful cultural commentator partly because the foods that it represented were resonant markers of the culture. There could be no comedy without food. Related genres and artefacts are also considered. The text also contains translations of hundreds of comic fragments; and it reassesses the division of comedy into Sicilian and Attic Old, Middle, and New.
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EAN: 9780199240685
UPC: 9780199240685
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Item Length: 22.1 cm
Book Title: The Boastful Chef: the Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy
Item Height: 224mm
Item Width: 146mm
Author: John Wilkins
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Literature
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 2000
Item Weight: 699g
Number of Pages: 496 Pages
