The Boastful Chef : The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy

Name: The Boastful Chef
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199240685
Price: 49450 KES
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ISBN: 9780199240685

by John Wilkins

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 019924068X

ISBN-13 9780199240685

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 14th, 2000

Print length 496 Pages

Weight 441 grams

Dimensions 19.80 x 12.90 x 3.10 cms

Product Classification: Ancient Greece Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Literary studies: plays & playwrights Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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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.

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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