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

by John Wilkins

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199240685
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	12/28/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.40(d)