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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Glazebrook, Allison, 1966-, Henry, Madeleine Mary, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2011.
Colección:Wisconsin studies in classics.
Temas:
Prostitutes > Greece > History.
Prostitutes > Rome > History.
Prostituées > Grèce > Histoire.
Prostituées > Rome > Histoire.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
Prostitutes
Greece
Rome (Empire)
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Andrōn 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 Aulētris / 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.

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