Scholarly yet immensely readable, and with comprehensive illustration, Siren Feasts is the first serious social history of Greek food.

Andrew Dalby trained as a classicist and linguist and is now librarian of the London Goodenough Trust for Overseas Graduates

Preface 1 THE WAY THESE PEOPLE SACRIFICE Part I The prehistoric Aegean 2 THE GARDENS OF ALCINOUS Part II Food and gastronomy of the classical Aegean 3 DIVINE INVENTIONS 4 IN THE FEASTS OF THE LYDIANS 5 SICILIAN TABLES Part HI Food and gastronomy of the post-classical Aegean 6 LEMONS OF THE HESPERIDES 17 STRYMONIAN EELS 8 THE IMPERIAL SYNTHESIS Part IV The Byzantine and later Aegean 9 BISCUITS FROM BYZANTIUM