{"product_id":"orgy-planner-wanted","title":"Orgy Planner Wanted","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo thousand years ago the denizens of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds performed an amazingly diverse and challenging array of tasks to earn their daily bread. Personal entrail-reader to the emperor; war-elephant troop commander; mopper-up of dead gladiators; armpit-hair plucker; stage actor; orgy planner: these are just a few of the career opportunities that beckoned for our ancient Mediterranean ancestors.\nIn Orgy Planner Wanted author Vicki León describes - in uniquely vivid and energetic style - 144 ancient career options from the glittering to the gory and from the strangely familiar to the entirely strange and entirely unfamiliar. Each of the book's ten chapters focuses on a particular professional area - from sex to showbiz from cookery to slavery and from divination to hairdressing - looking in detail at specific jobs in each category. \nSidebar profiles tell the stories of some 30 named jobholders - the likes of Spurrina Vestricius (personal entrail-reader to Julius Caesar) Publius and Lucius Sestius (traders in garum - a pungent fish-based forerunner of Worcestershire sauce) and Paris (a celebrated actor-dancer whose abortive attempts to teach the Emperor Nero to dance would ultimately lead to his demise).\nOrgy Planner Wanted offers a unique perspective on the world as it was 2000 years ago and looks certain to be one of the most intriguing and unputdownable popular history titles of 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44791260348595,"sku":"9781847243737","price":460.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17478127709781847243737.jpg?v=1762855027","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/orgy-planner-wanted","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}