Prostitutes and courtesans in the ancient world / edited by Christopher A. Faraone and Laura K. McClure.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006.
Description
x, 360 p.

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Subject(s)
Related name
Series
Wisconsin studies in classics. [More in this series]
Notes
Papers from the conference, "Prostitution in the Ancient World," held in Madison, April 12-14, 2002, hosted by the Classics and Hebrew and Semitic Studies department at the University.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-327) and index.
Language note
English
Contents
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations and Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • Prostitution and the Sacred
  • Marriage, Divorce, and the Prostitute in Ancient Mesopotamia
  • Prostitution in the Social World and the Religious Rhetoric of Ancient Israel
  • Heavenly Bodies: Monuments to Prostitutes in Greek Sanctuaries
  • Sacred Prostitution in the First Person
  • Legal and Moral Discourses on Prostitution
  • Free and Unfree Sexual Work: An Economic Analysis of Athenian Prostitution
  • The Bad Girls of Athens: The Image and Function of Hetairai in Judicial Oratory
  • The Psychology of Prostitution in Aeschines' Speech against Timarchus
  • Zoning Shame in the Roman City
  • The Politics of Prostitution: Clodia, Cicero, and Social Order in the Late Roman Republic
  • Matrona and Whore: Clothing and Definition in Roman Antiquity
  • Prostitution, Comedy, and Public Performance
  • Priestess and Courtesan: The Ambivalence of Female Leadership in Aristophanes' Lysistrata
  • A Courtesan's Choreography: Female Liberty and Male Anxiety at the Roman Dinner Party
  • Infamous Performers: Comic Actors and Female Prostitutes in Rome
  • The Phallic Lesbian: Philosophy, Comedy, and SocialInversion in Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Index Locorum.
ISBN
  • 1-282-26994-1
  • 9786612269943
  • 0-299-21313-7
OCLC
223388213
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