Courtesans and Fishcakes

A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians' consuming passions for food, wine and sex.

A history of the ancient Athenians' passion for food, wine and sex. Revealing how Athenian society was driven by an insatiable lust for culinary delights, fine wine and pleasures of the flesh, and how fortunes were lost and careers ruined through ritual drinking at the symposium, or the wooing of prostitutes.

Autorentext
James was born in Liverpool, where he has now returned to live after several years in Central Europe. Having been mainly based in Budapest and Prague, his experiences there had a major influence on his fiction.

Klappentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Atheniansâ™ consuming passions for food, wine and sex.

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