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This book is about ancient Greek comedy and how food was used as a medium to represent different aspects of life. The text also contains translations of hundreds of comic fragments.
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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