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Title: Courtesans and Fishcakes: Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
Author: James Davidson
ISBN: 0002555913
EAN: 9780002555913
320 Pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Binding: Hardcover
Publication date: 1997-06-12

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2008-06-30 Every dog has four thoughts, one for each paw: food, food, sex and food

The above quote comes from Katharine Whitehorn's iconic Cooking in a Bedsitter, but it could be applied to this excellent book, the best thing I've ever read on the ancient world. It is witty, informative and scholarly, with never a dull moment. And not least, he explodes the (frankly absurd) myth that heterosex in ancient Greece was solely for procreation. As Davidson himself is gay, his stressing of this point is all the more credible and creditable.