The myth of sacred prostitution in antiquity /

Stephanie Budin demonstrates that sacred prostitution, the sale of a person's body for sex in which some or all of the money earned was devoted to a deity or a temple, did not exist in the ancient world. Reconsidering the evidence from the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman texts, and the early...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Budin, Stephanie Lynn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Temas:
To 1500
Prostitution > History > To 1500.
Prostitution > Historiography.
Prostitution > Religious aspects.
Literature, Ancient > History and criticism.
Littérature ancienne > Histoire et critique.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
Literature, Ancient.
Prostitution.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The ancient Near Eastern data
  • The so-called "evidence"
  • Herodotos
  • In the footsteps of Herodotos : Lucian and "Jeremiah"
  • Pindar fragment 122
  • Strabo, confused and misunderstood
  • Klearkhos, Justinus, and Valerius Maximus
  • Archaeological "evidence" from Italy
  • The early Christian rhetoric
  • Last myths.

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