James Davidson

James Davidson’s books include Courtesans and Fishcakes, One Mykonos and The Greeks and Greek Love, which was published last year. He is a reader in ancient history at the University of Warwick.

In the LRB Archive:

• Plato Made It Up: Atlantis at Last! · 19 June 2008

  • The Atlantis Story: A Short History of Plato’s Myth by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, translated by Janet Lloyd

• No Beast More Refined: How Good Was Nureyev? · 29 November 2007

  • Rudolf Nureyev: The Life by Julie Kavanagh

• Zeus Be Nice Now: Ancient Cults · 19 July 2007

  • Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum
  • Polytheism and Society at Athens by Robert Parker

• Adrift from Locality: Captain Cook’s Mistake · 3 November 2005

  • Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa by Marshall Sahlins

• At the British Museum: Persia’s ‘Forgotten Empire’ · 22 September 2005

• Mr and Mr and Mrs and Mrs: Why would a guy want to marry a guy? · 2 June 2005

  • The Friend by Alan Bray

• I told you so!: oracles · 2 December 2004

  • The Road to Delphi: The Life and Afterlife of Oracles by Michael Wood

• Versailles with Panthers: a tribute to the Persians · 10 July 2003

  • From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire by Pierre Briant, translated by Peter Daniels
  • Ancient Persia from 550 BC to 650 AD: reissue by Josef Wiesehöfer, translated by Azizeh Azodi

• Bonkers about Boys on Alexander the Great · 1 November 2001

  • Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction edited by A.B. Bosworth and E.J. Baynham

• Face to Face with Merce Cunningham · 2 November 2000

• Too Young on Lord Alfred Douglas · 21 September 2000

  • Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas by Douglas Murray

• Clinging to the Sides of a Black, Precipitous Hole writes about The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens by Danielle Allen · 24 August 2000

  • The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens by Danielle Allen

• Feel what it’s like on Pagans, Jews and Christians · 2 March 2000

  • A World Full of Gods: Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire by Keith Hopkins

• An Easy Lay on Greek tragedy · 30 September 1999

  • Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy edited by Simon Goldhill and Robin Osborne
  • The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy edited by P.E. Easterling
  • Tragedy in Athens: Performance Space and Theatrical Meaning by David Wiles

• How many gay men does it take to change an island? on the ancient Greek islands · 10 June 1999

• Some Evil Thing · 18 February 1999

  • No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock by Marina Warner

• History as a Bunch of Flowers on Jacob Burckhardt · 20 August 1998

  • The Greeks and Greek Civilisation by Jacob Burckhardt, edited by Oswyn Murray, translated by Sheila Stern

• Tall and Tanned and Young and Lovely on the naked body in Ancient Greece · 18 June 1998

  • Art, Desire and the Body in Ancient Greece by Andrew Stewart

• Tuscanini on olives · 16 April 1998

  • Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit by Mort Rosenblum

• Himbo: Apollonios Rhodios · 5 March 1998

  • Apollonios Rhodios: The Argonautika translated by Peter Green

• Like a Meteorite · 31 July 1997

  • Homer in English edited by George Steiner
  • Homer’s ‘Iliad’ translated by Stanley Lombardo
  • Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ translated by Robert Fagles

• Stomach-Churning · 23 January 1997

  • Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism and Power in the Greek World, AD 50-250 by Simon Swain

• Chaotic to the Core · 6 June 1996

  • Satyrica by Petronius, translated by Bracht Branham and Daniel Kinney
  • The Satyricon by Petronius, translated by P.G. Walsh

• Brother-Making · 8 February 1996

  • The Marriage of Likeness: Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe by John Boswell

• Cures for Impotence · 19 October 1995

  • Foucault’s Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality by Simon Goldhill

• It’s Only Fashion · 24 November 1994

  • The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde and the Queer Moment by Alan Sinfield
  • Cultural Politics: Queer Reading by Alan Sinfield
  • Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford by Linda Dowling

• Stage Emperor · 28 April 1994

  • Reflections of Nero: Culture, History and Representation edited by Jás Elsner and Jamie Masters

• To the crows! · 27 January 1994

  • The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Other Reflections on the Classics by Bernard Knox

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