El cocinero cómicomaestro de los fogones y de la palabra
ISSN: 1131-9070
Year of publication: 2008
Issue: 18
Pages: 145-158
Type: Article
More publications in: Cuadernos de filología clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos
Abstract
Although it has some antecedents in the Dorian Sicilian Comedy and the Old Comedy, the figure of the cook acquires special features in the Middle and New Comedy, where it appears well characterized. Together with his absolute lack of shame and his fondness of robbing, it stands out his charlatanry among his defining features, which he often uses to hide the others. With a lofty and sententious language, he exposes in long parliaments cookery rules and his own skills to raise his trade to the category of art and fool his interlocutors.