History as a Bunch of Flowers

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.

Other articles by this contributor:

At the British Museum · James Davidson visits Persia’s ‘Forgotten Empire’

Zeus Be Nice Now · Ancient Cults

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

Plato Made It Up · Atlantis at Last!

Mr and Mr and Mrs and Mrs · Why would a guy want to marry a guy?

Himbo · Apollonios Rhodios

I told you so! · oracles

Versailles with Panthers · James Davidson pays tribute to the Persians