Ancient Athens on Five Drachmas a Day

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This witty guide – a companion to the same author’s bestselling Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day – provides all the information a tourist needs for a journey to ancient Athens in the 5th century BC.

Find out
• what to see
• where to go
• what to eat
• where to drink
• what to avoid

Meet some of the greatest philosophers, writers and artists who ever lived. Encounter ordinary Athenians in the marketplace, in the assembly and on their country farms, and learn the true character of one of the most extraordinary cities of any age.

Ancient Athens was not all art, intellect and politics.
This detailed yet irreverently unacademic handbook also plunges into the fun side of Athenian life, with wine-sodden symposiums, brothels and brawls, advising the reader to avoid inns where the beds are infested with bugs (and prostitutes) and warning that torches and an escort are needed to avoid muggers after an evening on the town.