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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.
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John Wilkins is at University of Exeter.
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`Offers a more multi-sided approach to ancient cooking and its practitioners than any other available'
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`A scholarly book'
Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement
`As an examination of ancient "discourse" on food, the book is rich and often perceptive.'
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`The Boastful Chef is an erudite journey through many aspects of ancient comic literature.'
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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.'
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2001
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