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Item Details
Title:
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COURTESANS AND FISHCAKES
THE CONSUMING PASSIONS OF CLASSICAL ATHENS |
By: |
James Davidson |
Format: |
Paperback |
List price:
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£14.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0006863434 |
ISBN 13: |
9780006863434 |
Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
Pub. date: |
26 February, 1998 |
Pages: |
400 |
Description: |
A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians' consuming passions for food, wine and sex. |
Synopsis: |
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. |
Illustrations: |
2 b/w illus, 8 b/w plates (8pp), Index |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Fontana Press |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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