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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index
