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Title: COURTESANS AND FISHCAKES
THE CONSUMING PASSIONS OF CLASSICAL ATHENS
By: James Davidson
Format: Paperback

List price: £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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