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The Boastful Chef: The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy
The Boastful Chef The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy Author:John Wilkins 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 Ol... more »d, Middle, and New.« less