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Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens Book

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.Read More

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  • 0006863434
  • 9780006863434
  • James Davidson
  • 1 June 1998
  • Fontana Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 400
  • New Ed
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