Greek prostitutes in the ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE
By: edited by Allison Glazebrook and Madeleine M. Henry
Series: Wisconsin studies in classics
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780299235642; 9780299235635
Subjects: Prostitutes; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Why prostitues? Why Greek? Why now? / Allison Glazebrook and Madeleine M. Henry; title: Traffic in women : from Homer to Hipponax, from war to commerce / Madeleine M. Henry; title: - Porneion : prostitution in Athenian civic space / Allison Glazebrook; title: Bringing the outside in : the Andrōn as brothel and the Symposium's civic sexuality / Sean Corner; title: Woman + wine = prostitute in classical Athens? / Clare Kelly Blazeby; title: Embodying sympotic pleasure : a visual pun on the body of an Aulētris / Helen A. Coccagna; title: Sex for sale? Interpreting erotica in the Havana collection / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz; title: Brothels at Delos : the evidence for prostitution in the maritime world / T. Davina McClain and Nicholas K. Rauh; title: Ballio's brothel, Phoenicium's letter, and the literary education of Greco-Roman prostitutes : the evidence of Plautus's Pseudolus / Judith P. Hallett; title: Prostitutes, pimps, and political conspiracies during the Late Roman Republic; title: Terminology of prostittuion in the Ancient Greek world / Konstantinos K. Kapparis; title: Greek brothels and more / Thomas A.J. McGinn.