Feel what it’s like

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:

Versailles with Panthers · James Davidson pays tribute to the Persians

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

Himbo · Apollonios Rhodios

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

Zeus Be Nice Now · Ancient Cults

I told you so! · oracles

Plato Made It Up · Atlantis at Last!

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