Greek prostitutes in the ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE /
Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE challenges the often-romanticized view of the prostitute as an urbane and liberated courtesan by examining the social and economic realities of the sex industry in Greco-Roman culture. Departing from the conventional focus on elite socie...
Други автори: | Glazebrook, Allison, 1966-, Henry, Madeleine Mary, 1949- |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
℗♭2011.
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Серия: |
Wisconsin studies in classics.
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Greek prostitutes in the ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE. |
Съдържание:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Transliterations
- Introduction: Why Prostitutes? Why Greek? Why Now? / Allison Glazebrook and Madeleine M. Henry
- 1. The Traffic in Women: From Homer to Hipponax, from War to Commerce / Madeleine M. Henry
- 2. Porneion: Prostitution in Athenian Civic Space / Allison Glazebrook
- 3. Bringing the Outside In: The Andron as Brothel and the Symposium's Civic Sexuality / Sean Corner
- 4. Woman + Wine = Prostitute in Classical Athens? / Clare Kelly Blazeby
- 5. Embodying Sympotic Pleasure: A Visual Pun on the Body of an Auletris / Helene A. Coccagna
- 6. Sex for Sale? Interpreting Erotica in the Havana Collection / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
- 7. The Brothels at Delos: The Evidence for Prostitution in the Maritime World / T. Davina McClain and Nicholas K. Rauh
- 8. Ballio's Brothel, Phoenicium's Letter, and the Literary Education of Greco-Roman Prostitutes: The Evidence of Plautus's Pseudolus / Judith P. Hallett
- 9. Prostitutes, Pimps, and Political Conspiracies during the Late Roman Republic / Nicholas K. Rauh
- 10. The Terminology of Prostitution in the Ancient Greek World / Konstantinos K. Kapparis
- Conclusion: Greek Brothels and More / Thomas A.J. McGinn
- References
- Contributors
- Index
- Index Locorum.