Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World

by: Faraone, Chr.A. McClure, L.K.

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Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World

Edited by Christopher A. Faraone & Laura K. McClure

Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics

Description
Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World explores the implications of sex-for-pay across a broad span of time, from ancient Mesopotamia to the early Christian period. In ancient times, although they were socially marginal, prostitutes connected with almost every aspect of daily life. They sat in brothels and walked the streets; they paid taxes and set up dedications in religious sanctuaries; they appeared as characters—sometimes admirable, sometimes despicable—on the comic stage and in the law courts; they lived lavishly, consorting with famous poets and politicians; and they participated in otherwise all-male banquets and drinking parties, where they aroused jealousy among their anxious lovers.

The chapters in this volume examine a wide variety of genres and sources, from legal and religious tracts to the genres of lyric poetry, love elegy, and comic drama to the graffiti scrawled on the walls of ancient Pompeii. These essays reflect the variety and vitality of the debates engendered by the last three decades of research by confronting the ambiguous terms for prostitution in ancient languages, the difficulty of distinguishing the prostitute from the woman who is merely promiscuous or adulterous, the question of whether sacred or temple prostitution actually existed in the ancient Near East and Greece, and the political and social implications of literary representations of prostitutes and courtesans.

Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments 
Abbreviations 

Introduction 
Laura K. McClure
Prostitution and the Sacred
Marriage, Divorce and the Prostitute in Ancient Mesopotamia 
Martha Roth
Prostitution in the Social World and the Religious Rhetoric of Ancient Israel 
Phyllis Bird
Heavenly Bodies: Monuments to Prostitutes in Greek Sanctuaries 
Catherine Keesling
Sacred Prostitution in the First Person 
Stephanie Budin
Legal and Moral Discourses on Prostitution
Free and Unfree Sexual Work: An Economic Analysis of Athenian Prostitution 
Edward Cohen
The Bad Girls of Athens: The Image and Function of Hetairai in Judicial Oratory 
Allison Glazebrook
The Psychology of Prostitution in Aeschines' Speech Against Timarchus 
Susan Lape
Zoning Shame in the Roman City 
Thomas McGinn
The Politics of Prostitution: Clodia, Cicero, and Social Order in the Late Roman Republic 
Marsha McCoy
Matrona and Whore: Clothing and Definition in Roman Antiquity 
Kelly Olson
Prostitution, Comedy, and Public Performance
The Priestess and the Courtesan: The Ambivalence of Female Leadership in Aristophanes' Lysistrata 
Christopher A. Faraone
A Courtesan's Choreography: Female Liberty and Male Anxiety at the Roman Dinner Party 
Sharon James
Infamous Performers: Comic Actors and Female Prostitutes at Rome 
Anne Duncan
The Phallic Lesbian: Philosophy, Comedy and Social Inversion in Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans 
Kate Gilhuly
Bibliography 
Contributors 
Index 

Reviews
“This volume engages provocatively with previous studies on the topic of prostitution in Greece, Rome, and the Near East. The readable style and lively English translations will make this book accessible not only to students and specialists but also to the broader reading public.”—Judith P. Hallett, coeditor of Roman Sexualities

Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World

by: Faraone, Chr.A. McClure, L.K.

• ISBN-13: 9780299213145 / 978-0-299-21314-5
• ISBN-03: 0299213145 / 0-299-21314-5
• The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 2006

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Asia Minor Studien Band 93: Feldforschungen im Latmos. Forschungen im Umland von Herakleia am Latmos. Mit Beitr. v. Hohfeld, Volker/ Herbordt, Suzanne/ Lohmann, Hans

by: Lohmann, H.

• ISBN-13: 9783774942141 / 978-3-7749-4214-1
• ISBN-03: 3774942145 / 3-7749-4214-5
• Rudolf Habelt, Bonn, 2019