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The boastful chef : the discourse of food in ancient Greek comedy / John Wilkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilkins, John, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greek drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.
- Greek drama (Comedy).
- Dinners and dining--Greece--History.
- Dinners and dining.
- Food habits--Greece--History.
- Food habits.
- Dinners and dining in literature.
- Cooking--Greece--History.
- Cooking.
- Food habits in literature.
- Cooking in literature.
- Cooks in literature.
- History.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 465 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-436) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 019924068X
- OCLC:
- 43729030
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