The Boastful Chef: The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy
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.
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The Boastful Chef: The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy
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.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199240685 |
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| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Publication date: | 03/01/2001 |
| Edition description: | New Edition |
| Pages: | 496 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.40(d) |
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