Cooks, Warriors and Metaphors in Comic Fragments
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Anna A. Novokhatko
Abstract
This paper examines the interplay between the metaphorical domains of cooking and warfare, a pattern prominent in New Comedy, from the perspectives of “mindreading”, “conceptual metaphor theory” and “conceptual blending theory”. The interaction between food and war is discussed in Aristophanic comedy, where military and political strategies are often presented in terms of cooking, and in later comedies such as Dionysius of Sinope, Sosipater and Posidippus, where this pattern is reversed and cooking is presented in terms of warfare. Insights from socio-cognitive and bio-cognitive approaches can offer a productive way of illuminating comic fragments when certain verses are taken out of their (comic?) context.
Abstract
This paper examines the interplay between the metaphorical domains of cooking and warfare, a pattern prominent in New Comedy, from the perspectives of “mindreading”, “conceptual metaphor theory” and “conceptual blending theory”. The interaction between food and war is discussed in Aristophanic comedy, where military and political strategies are often presented in terms of cooking, and in later comedies such as Dionysius of Sinope, Sosipater and Posidippus, where this pattern is reversed and cooking is presented in terms of warfare. Insights from socio-cognitive and bio-cognitive approaches can offer a productive way of illuminating comic fragments when certain verses are taken out of their (comic?) context.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents VII
- Introduction 1
- Characters and Comic Poetics in Diphilus and Philemon 9
- Diphilus and the Comic Tradition 57
- Cooks, Warriors and Metaphors in Comic Fragments 91
- A Comedy of Disengagement? Traces and Revisitations of the ὀνομαστὶ κωμῳδεῖν in Philemon, Alexis and Other Contemporaries of Menander 111
- Comic Adespota on Papyrus (1093, 1014 K.–A.): Menander, Philemon, Diphilus? 199
- Language and Linguistic Themes in the Fragments of Later Greek Comedy 213
- Newer, Later, Lesser: The Evolving Language of Later Attic Comedy and its Ancient and Modern Appraisal 253
- Choosing the Script to Translate: Roman Comic Playwrights and their Greek Models 289
- The Third Man: Diphilus in the Rudens and Beyond 303
- Athenian Law as Source of Inspiration: Apollodorus and Terence’s Phormio 323
- List of Contributors 345
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Passages
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents VII
- Introduction 1
- Characters and Comic Poetics in Diphilus and Philemon 9
- Diphilus and the Comic Tradition 57
- Cooks, Warriors and Metaphors in Comic Fragments 91
- A Comedy of Disengagement? Traces and Revisitations of the ὀνομαστὶ κωμῳδεῖν in Philemon, Alexis and Other Contemporaries of Menander 111
- Comic Adespota on Papyrus (1093, 1014 K.–A.): Menander, Philemon, Diphilus? 199
- Language and Linguistic Themes in the Fragments of Later Greek Comedy 213
- Newer, Later, Lesser: The Evolving Language of Later Attic Comedy and its Ancient and Modern Appraisal 253
- Choosing the Script to Translate: Roman Comic Playwrights and their Greek Models 289
- The Third Man: Diphilus in the Rudens and Beyond 303
- Athenian Law as Source of Inspiration: Apollodorus and Terence’s Phormio 323
- List of Contributors 345
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Passages
