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James Davidson
Courtesans and Fishcakes [EPUB ebook]
The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens (Text Only)

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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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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780007373185 ● Editura HarperCollins Publishers ● Publicat 2016 ● Descărcabil 3 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 4856490 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM

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