Greek prostitutes in the ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE / edited by Allison Glazebrook and Madeleine M. Henry.

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Book
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English
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Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2011.
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xi, 324 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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    Wisconsin studies in classics. [More in this series]
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    "Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE{u2013}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 society, these essays consider the Greek prostitute as displaced foreigner, slave, and member of an urban underclass. The contributors draw on a wide range of material and textual evidence to discuss portrayals of prostitutes on painted vases and in the literary tradition, their roles at symposia (Greek drinking parties), and their place in the everyday life of the polis. Reassessing many assumptions about the people who provided and purchased sexual services, this volume yields a new look at gender, sexuality, urbanism, and economy in the ancient Mediterranean world." -- Publisher's description.
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    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    Contents
    • Why prostitues? Why Greek? Why now? / Allison Glazebrook and Madeleine M. Henry
    • Traffic in women : from Homer to Hipponax, from war to commerce / Madeleine M. Henry --- Porneion : prostitution in Athenian civic space / Allison Glazebrook
    • Bringing the outside in : the Andrōn as brothel and the Symposium's civic sexuality / Sean Corner
    • Woman + wine = prostitute in classical Athens? / Clare Kelly Blazeby
    • Embodying sympotic pleasure : a visual pun on the body of an Aulētris / Helen A. Coccagna
    • Sex for sale? Interpreting erotica in the Havana collection / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
    • Brothels at Delos : the evidence for prostitution in the maritime world / T. Davina McClain and Nicholas K. Rauh
    • Ballio's brothel, Phoenicium's letter, and the literary education of Greco-Roman prostitutes : the evidence of Plautus's Pseudolus / Judith P. Hallett
    • Prostitutes, pimps, and political conspiracies during the Late Roman Republic
    • Terminology of prostittuion in the Ancient Greek world / Konstantinos K. Kapparis
    • Greek brothels and more / Thomas A.J. McGinn.
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    Project Muse UPCC books
    ISBN
    • 9780299235642 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • 0299235645 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • 9780299235635 (e-book)
    • 0299235637 (e-book)
    LCCN
    ^^2010011575
    OCLC
    589017749
    RCP
    H - S
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