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Boastful Chef The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy

Wilkins John
Innbundet / 2000 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199240685
Published
2000
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
699 gr
Height
224 mm
Width
146 mm
Thickness
30 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
496

Author
Wilkins John

Boastful Chef The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy

Wilkins John
Innbundet / 2000 / Engelsk
Wilkins John
Innbundet / 2000 / Engelsk
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This is a fascinating and original book, spiced with liberal quotations (all translated) from comic fragments alongside discussion of the plays of Aristophanes and Menander

Greece & Rome

Offers a more multi-sided approach to ancient cooking and its practitioners than any other available

Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement

A scholarly book

Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement

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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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.
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`Offers a more multi-sided approach to ancient cooking and its practitioners than any other available' Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement `A scholarly book' Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement `As an examination of ancient "discourse" on food, the book is rich and often perceptive.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review `The Boastful Chef is an erudite journey through many aspects of ancient comic literature.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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This is a fascinating and original book, spiced with liberal quotations (all translated) from comic fragments alongside discussion of the plays of Aristophanes and Menander

Greece & Rome

Offers a more multi-sided approach to ancient cooking and its practitioners than any other available

Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement

A scholarly book

Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement

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.
Read more
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.
Read more
`Offers a more multi-sided approach to ancient cooking and its practitioners than any other available' Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement `A scholarly book' Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement `As an examination of ancient "discourse" on food, the book is rich and often perceptive.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review `The Boastful Chef is an erudite journey through many aspects of ancient comic literature.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Read more

Product details

ISBN
9780199240685
Published
2000
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
699 gr
Height
224 mm
Width
146 mm
Thickness
30 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
496

Author
Wilkins John

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