| Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens Revised Edition Contributor(s): Davidson, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0006863434 ISBN-13: 9780006863434 Publisher: Fontana Press OUR PRICE: $14.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece - History | Ancient - Rome - Poetry | Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 938 |
| Physical Information: 1.03" H x 5" W x 8" (0.81 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Davidson, James: - James Davidson lectures in ancient history and the classical languages at the University of Warwick. He was previously a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. |