Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens (Text Only)
Nonfiction, History, Ancient History, Greece, European General
| Author: | James Davidson | ISBN: | 9780007373185 |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers | Publication: | March 31, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Fontana Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | James Davidson |
| ISBN: | 9780007373185 |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Publication: | March 31, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Fontana Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
