Description
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.
Author: James Davidson
Publisher: Fontana Press
Published: 07/20/1998
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 1.03d
ISBN13: 9780006863434
ISBN10: 0006863434
BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient | Greece
- History | Ancient | Rome
- Poetry | Ancient & Classical
About the Author
James Davidson lectures in ancient history and the classical languages at the University of Warwick. He was previously a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.
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