Boastful Chef - The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy

Zusatztext A scholarly book Klappentext This book explains the importance of food to ancient Greek comedy: it was a medium through which comedy could represent the material! social! agricultural! political and religious worlds to the Greek city-state. 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. Zusammenfassung This is a book about Greek culture. It explains why Greek comedy picked out food in particular as a cultural marker. Hundreds of comic fragments are quoted in translation. The development of comedy is explored together with comic creativity as poets sought to represent 'reality' (figs or cooking-pots) on the stage.

Product details

• Authors: John Wilkins, John (Senior Lecturer in Classics Wilkins, Wilkins John
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2000
• EAN: 9780199240685
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924068-5
• No. of pages: 496
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form