Courtesans & fishcakes : the consuming passions of classical Athens / James N. Davidson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davidson, James N.

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Athens (Greece)--Social life and customs.

Athens (Greece).

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Athens (Greece)--Moral conditions.

Courtesans--Greece--Athens.

Courtesans.

Greeks--Food.

Greeks.

Civilization.

Manners and customs.

Moral conditions.

Greece--Athens.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

xxvi, 371, [9] pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Edition:

First HarperPerennial edition

Distribution:

New York : A division of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Other Title:

Courtesans and fishcakes

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperPerennial, 1999.

Contents:

Part I. Feasts. I. Eating; II. Drinking

Part II. Desire. III. Women and Boys; IV. A Purchase on the Hetaera

Part III. The Citizen. V. Bodies; VI. Economies

Part IV. The City. VII. Politics and Society; VIII. Politics and Politicians; IX. Tyranny and Revolution.

Notes:

First published in Great Britain in 1997 by HarperCollins Publishers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-362) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

ISBN:

0060977663

9780060977665

OCLC:

41049710