Prostitutes and courtesans in the ancient world /
These essays explore the implications of sex-for-pay from ancient Mesopotamia to the early Christian period. They reflect the debates engendered by research by confronting the ambiguous terms for prostitution in ancient languages as well as the political and social implications of literary represent...
| Други автори: | Faraone, Christopher A., McClure, Laura, 1959- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
℗♭2006.
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| Серия: |
Wisconsin studies in classics.
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Prostitutes and courtesans in the ancient world. |
Съдържание:
- Marriage, divorce, and the prostitute in ancient Mesopotamia / Martha T. Roth
- Prostitution in the social world and the religious rhetoric of ancient Israel / Phyllis A. Bird
- Heavenly bodies : monuments to prostitutes in Greek sanctuaries / Catherine Keesling
- Sacred prostitution in the first person / Stephanie L. Budin
- Free and unfree sexual work : an economic analysis of Athenian prostitution / Edward E. Cohen
- The bad girls of Athens : the image and function of Hetairai in judicial oratory / Allison Glazebrook
- The psychology of prostitution in Aeschines's speech against Timarchus / Susan Lape
- Zone shame in the Roman city / Thomas McGinn
- The politics of prostitution : Clodia, Cicero, and social order in the late Roman Republic / Marsha McCoy
- Matrona and whore : clothing and definition in Roman antiquity / Kelly Olson
- Priestess and courtesan : the ambivalence of female leadership in Aristophanes's Lysistrata / Christopher A. Faraone
- A courtesan's choreography : female liberty and male anxiety at the Roman dinner party / Sharon L. James
- Infamous performers : comic actors and female prostitutes in Rome / Anne Duncan
- The phallic lesbian : philosophy, comedy, and social inversion in Lucian's Dialogues of the courtesans / Kate Gilhuly.