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Wilkins, John

 
9780199240685: The Boastful Chef: The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy
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ISBN 10 : 019924068X ISBN 13 : 9780199240685
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

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)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
019924068X
ISBN 13 
9780199240685
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
496
Coordonnées du fabricant
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