Courtesans and Fishcakes : The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens Paperback / softback
by James Davidson
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 2 b/w illus, 8 b/w plates (8pp), Index
- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date:01/06/1998
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- ISBN:9780006863434
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 2 b/w illus, 8 b/w plates (8pp), Index
- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date:01/06/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9780006863434