The Boastful Chef

The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy

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John Wilkins

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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.

Release date Australia

December 14th, 2000

Author

John Wilkins

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

496

Dimensions

146x224x30

ISBN-13

9780199240685

Product ID

2010301

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