Courtesans and fishcakes: the consuming passions of Classical Athens
Davidson, James
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.
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Tahun:
2016
Penerbit:
HarperCollins Publishers
Bahasa:
english
ISBN 10:
000737318X
ISBN 13:
9780007373185
Fail:
EPUB, 1.66 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2016