Courtesans And Fishcakes by James West Davidson
The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
A lively exploration of classical Athens through the lens of appetite and consumption, showing how desires for luxury seafood, sex, wine, and entertainment shaped social relations, class tensions, and civic values. Drawing on courtroom speeches, comedies, and inscriptions, it illuminates anxieties over excess versus self-control, the status politics of the marketplace and symposium, and the intersections of pleasure, money, and morality in the daily life of a democracy.
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- 1997
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- British
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