JAMES DAVIDSON is Reader in Ancient History at the University of Warwick. He has written on a wide range of ancient topics, including prostitution, drinking to get drunk, sacred time and fish. He is an irregular contributor to The London Review of Books among other journals.
Davidson's own scholarship is impressive, but worn lightly, and matched with an easy tone that makes The Greeks and Greek Love a lively, and often very funny, read - LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS poses a radical challenge to prominent assumptions about same-sex love in ancient Greece - OXONIAN REVIEW