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This is a book about Greek culture. It explains why Greek comedy picked out food in particular as a cultural marker. Hundreds of comic fragments are quoted in translation. The development of comedy is explored together with comic creativity as poets sought to represent 'reality' (figs or cooking-pots) on the stage.

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This is a fascinating and original book, spiced with liberal quotations (all translated) from comic fragments alongside discussion of the plays of Aristophanes and Menander * Greece & Rome *
Offers a more multi-sided approach to ancient cooking and its practitioners than any other available * Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement *
A scholarly book * Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement *

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
      Publication Date: 12/14/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780199240685, 978-0199240685
      ISBN10: 019924068X
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: ancient, classical Literary studies: plays and playwrights

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is a book about Greek culture. It explains why Greek comedy picked out food in particular as a cultural marker. Hundreds of comic fragments are quoted in translation. The development of comedy is explored together with comic creativity as poets sought to represent 'reality' (figs or cooking-pots) on the stage.

      Trade Review
      This is a fascinating and original book, spiced with liberal quotations (all translated) from comic fragments alongside discussion of the plays of Aristophanes and Menander * Greece & Rome *
      Offers a more multi-sided approach to ancient cooking and its practitioners than any other available * Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement *
      A scholarly book * Simon Goldhill, Times Literary Supplement *

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