description: Highlighting the role women played in Athenian society, Madeleine Henry here examines the fascinating life of Neaera.In the course of her life Neaera occupied almost every role that was played by a women in Athens: child, daughter, wife, mother, and 'lady of the house'; slave, freed, free; prostitute, living with one man, working for pay; upstanding and respectable, criminal and adulterous.
language: English
title: Neaera: Writing a Prostitutes Life
titlecomplete: Neaera: Writing a Prostitutes Life (Women of the Ancient World)
publisher: Routledge