Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens

Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
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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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James Davidson. Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens

COURTESANS & FISHCAKES. THE CONSUMING PASSIONS OF. CLASSICAL ATHENS

Copyright

Praise

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

I EATING

FISH

THE FISH MISSING FROM HOMER

A DANGEROUS SUPPLEMENT

ST JOHN THE FISHMONGER?

II DRINKING

WINE

THE SYMPOSIUM

COMMENSALITY

TAVERNS

CUPS

III WOMEN AND BOYS

STREETS

BROTHELS

SYMPOSIUM

AT HOME

IV A PURCHASE ON THE HETAERA

LOVE AND MONEY

JUST GOOD FRIENDS

THE ECONOMY OF LOOKING

V BODIES

ANCIENT ADDICTIONS

THEOPSOPHAGOS

THE DRINKER

WOMANIZERS AND LOVERS OF BOYS

THE KATAPUGON AND THE KINAIDOS

VI ECONOMIES

THE OIKOS

FOOD AND DRINK

SEX AND EXPENDITURE

THE GRASPING HETAERA

MONEY AND MORALITY

EATING THE LAND

VII POLITICS AND SOCIETY

A CITY OF WITNESSES

RICHES AND DIFFERENCE

CLASS

WHERE MONEY LIES

APPETITE AND CRIME

VIII POLITICS AND POLITICIANS. TIMARCHUS ON QUEER STREET

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF PHILIP

THE BRAVERY OF BANQUETS

THE ECONOMY OF WORDS

PARTNERS IN PLEASURE

IX TYRANNY AND REVOLUTION

POWER AND PLEASURE

POWER BANQUETS

ATHENS

TYRANNY

THE END OF CIVILIZATION

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Notes. CHAPR I. EATING

CHAPTER II. DRINKING

CHAPTER III. WOMEN AND BOYS

CHAPTER IV A PURCHASE ON THE HETAERA

CHAPTER V. BODIES

CHAPTER VI ECONOMIES

CHAPTER VII POLITICS AND SOCIETY

CHAPTER viii politics and politicians

CHAPTER IX TYRANNY AND REVOLUTION

About the Publisher

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James Davidson

OLIVER TAPLIN, Observer

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The fishmongers in question belonged to a characteristically urban environment of crafty charlatans and tricksy merchants, for one consequence of the placing of fish in a trade-economy was that it came to be seen as part of the world of the. city. If fish do ever make an appearance in the countryside they seem almost exotic, as a fragment from a satire on peasants makes clear:

‘You, Pistus, will take some money and do some shopping for me.’

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