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Title Prostitutes and courtesans in the ancient world / edited by Christopher A. Faraone and Laura K. McClure
Published Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 360 pages)
Series Wisconsin studies in classics
Wisconsin studies in classics.
Contents Marriage, divorce, and the prostitute in ancient Mesopotamia / Martha T. Roth -- Prostitution in the social world and the religious rhetoric of ancient Israel / Phyllis A. Bird -- Heavenly bodies : monuments to prostitutes in Greek sanctuaries / Catherine Keesling -- Sacred prostitution in the first person / Stephanie L. Budin -- Free and unfree sexual work : an economic analysis of Athenian prostitution / Edward E. Cohen -- The bad girls of Athens : the image and function of Hetairai in judicial oratory / Allison Glazebrook -- The psychology of prostitution in Aeschines's speech against Timarchus / Susan Lape -- Zone 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 -- Priestess and courtesan : the ambivalence of female leadership in Aristophanes's Lysistrata / Christopher A. Faraone -- A courtesan's choreography : female liberty and male anxiety at the Roman dinner party / Sharon L. James -- Infamous performers : comic actors and female prostitutes in Rome / Anne Duncan -- The phallic lesbian : philosophy, comedy, and social inversion in Lucian's Dialogues of the courtesans / Kate Gilhuly
Summary These essays explore the implications of sex-for-pay from ancient Mesopotamia to the early Christian period. They reflect the debates engendered by research by confronting the ambiguous terms for prostitution in ancient languages as well as the political and social implications of literary representations of prostitutes
Notes Papers from the conference, "Prostitution in the Ancient World," held in Madison, April 12-14, 2002, hosted by the Classics and Hebrew and Semitic Studies department at the University
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-327) and index
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Subject Prostitution -- Greece -- History -- Congresses
Prostitution -- Rome -- History -- Congresses
Courtesans -- Greece -- History -- Congresses
Courtesans -- Rome -- History -- Congresses
Sex role -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Sex role -- Rome -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
Courtesans
Prostitution
Sex role
Antike
Prostitution
Greece
Rome (Empire)
Griechenland Altertum
Römisches Reich
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Faraone, Christopher A.
McClure, Laura, 1959-
LC no. 2005005455
ISBN 0299213137
9780299213138
1282269941
9781282269941
9786612269943
6612269944