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003			InACL
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008			261003s2000 xxk 0 eng d
020			_a9780199240685
020			_a019924068X
040			_aInACL _beng _erda _cInACL
082	0	4	_a882.01019 _bWIL _223
100	1		_aWilkins, John _eauthor
245	1	4	_aThe boastful chef : _bthe discourse of food in ancient Greek comedy / _cWilkins, John
264		1	_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c2000
300			_a465 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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 Dionysus 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 and the foods that it represented were resonant markers of the culture. There could be no comedy without food and wine. Related genres and artefacts are also considered. The text contains translations of hundreds of comic fragments; and it reassesses the division of comedy into Sicilian and Attic Old, Middle, and New."--Jacket.
650		0	_aGreek drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism
650		0	_aDinners and dining -- Greece -- History
650		0	_aFood habits -- Greece -- History
650		0	_aDinners and dining in literature
650		0	_aCookery -- Greece -- History
650		0	_aFood habits in literature
650		0	_aGastronomy in literature
650		0	_aCookery in literature
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