Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Courtesan as Fetish
  • Ancient Greek Terms for Prostitutes
  • Distinguishing the Hetaera from the Porne
  • The Pallake
  • The Auletris and Other Female Entertainers
  • The Eromene
  • Genres of Courtesans: Athenaeus and Literary Nostalgia
  • Athenaeus and the Literary Symposium
  • Genres of Courtesans: Athenaeus and the Literary Quotation
  • Book 13 and the Discourse on Hetaeras
  • Cynulcus' Invective against Hetaeras
  • Myrtilus' Encomium of Hetaeras
  • The Women Most Mentioned: The Names of Athenian Courtesans
  • The Problem with Names
  • The Names of Athenian Women
  • Attic Identity, Foreign Birth
  • The Names of Hetaeras
  • The Names of Slaves
  • The Use of the Metronymic
  • The Witticisms of Courtesans and Attic Paideia
  • Flattery, Riddles, and Double-Entendres
  • Hetaeras as Poets and Poets as Hetaeras
  • Sympotic Mockery
  • The Laughter of Hetaeras
  • The Chreia as a Literary Genre
  • Tragic Humor, Comic Obscenity
  • Philosophers and Courtesans
  • The Spectacle of the Body: Courtesans in Performance
  • Staging the Female Body
  • Cynulcus' Praise of Brothels
  • Metaphors of the Body
  • Performing the Hetaera
  • The Movements of Hetaeras
  • The Hetaera and Epideixis
  • The Courtesan as Model: Phryne and her Statues
  • The Rhetoric of the Body: Phryne's Trial
  • Temples and Mirrors: The Dedications of Hetaeras
  • Hetaeras and the Worship of Aphrodite
  • Narratives of Transgression
  • Funerary Monuments
  • Narratives of Benefaction
  • Tools of the Trade: Anathematic Epigrams.