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Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens

Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens - Paperback

by James Davidson
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Availability:In StockContributor:James DavidsonPublish date:1998-06-01Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fontana PressISBN-13:9780006863434ISBN-10:6863434UPC:9780006863434Book Category:History, PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient, Ancient & ClassicalBook Topic:Greece, RomeSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 1.03 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCZ7E908QM

A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians' consuming passions for food, wine and sex.

Sex, shopping and fish-madness, Athenian style.

This fascinating book reveals that the ancient Athenians were supreme hedonists. Their society was driven by an insatiable lust for culinary delights - especially fish - fine wine and pleasures of the flesh. Indeed, great fortunes were squandered and politicians' careers ruined through ritual drinking at the symposium, or the wooing of highly-coveted, costly prostitutes.

James Davidson brings an incisive eye and an urbane wit to this refreshingly accessible and different history of the people who invented Europe, democracy and art.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Fontana PressISBN-13:9780006863434ISBN-10:6863434UPC:9780006863434Book Category:History, PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient, Ancient & ClassicalBook Topic:Greece, RomeSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 1.03 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCZ7E908QM

James Davidson lectures in ancient history and the classical languages at the University of Warwick. He was previously a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.


Publisher: Fontana Press

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