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Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE–200 CE.
Title:
Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE–200 CE.
Author:
Glazebrook, Allison.
ISBN:
9780299235635
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (342 pages)
Series:
Wisconsin Studies in Classics
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Transliterations -- Introduction: Why Prostitutes? Why Greek? Why Now? -- 1. The Traffic in Women: From Homer to Hipponax, from War to Commerce -- 2 Porneion: Prostitution in Athenian Civic Space -- 3. Bringing the Outside In: The Andrön as Brothel and the Symposium's Civic Sexuality -- 4. Woman + Wine = Prostitute in Classical Athens? -- 5. Embodying Sympotic Pleasure: A Visual Pun on the Body of an Aulëtris -- 6. Sex for Sale? Interpreting Erotica in the Havana Collection -- 7. The Brothels at Delos: The Evidence for Prostitution in the Maritime World -- 8. Ballio's Brothel, Phoenicium's Letter, and the Literary Education of Greco-Roman Prostitutes: The Evidence of Plautus's Pseudolus -- 9. Prostitutes, Pimps, and Political Conspiracies during the Late Roman Republic -- 10. The Terminology of Prostitution in the Ancient Greek World -- Conclusion: Greek Brothels and More -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- Index Locorum.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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