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Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens

By (author) James Davidson

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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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Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Dispatched in aprox 4-8 weeks as local supplier is out of stock
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers
Published date | 1 Jun 1998
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 400
Dimensions | 198 x 129 x 26mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 292g
ISBN | 978-0-0068-6343-4
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BISAC | history / ancient / greece

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