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Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE Allison Glazebrook

Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE By Allison Glazebrook

Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE by Allison Glazebrook

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Challenges the often-romanticised view of the prostitute as an urbane and liberated courtesan by examining the social and economic realities of the sex industry in Greco-Roman culture. Departing from the conventional focus on elite society, these essays consider the Greek prostitute as displaced foreigner, slave, and member of an urban underclass.

Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE Summary

Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE by Allison Glazebrook

Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE challenges the often-romanticised view of the prostitute as an urbane and liberated courtesan by examining the social and economic realities of the sex industry in Greco-Roman culture. Departing from the conventional focus on elite society, these essays consider the Greek prostitute as displaced foreigner, slave, and member of an urban underclass.
The contributors draw on a wide range of material and textual evidence to discuss portrayals of prostitutes on painted vases and in the literary tradition, their roles at symposia (Greek drinking parties), and their place in the everyday life of the polis. Reassessing many assumptions about the people who provided and purchased sexual services, this volume yields a new look at gender, sexuality, urbanism, and economy in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE Reviews

By questioning the class-based polarity between courtesan (hetaira) and whore (porne), the authors substantially correct academic readings of the Greek prostitute as cultural construct, embedding them in gritty reality. -Marilyn Skinner, University of Arizona

Common prostitutes, such as those found in brothels, around harbors, and on the streets of ancient cities, have long been ignored in favor of their more glamorous counterpart, the hetaira. This volume for the first time puts the focus on the degradation, marginality, and exploitation inherent in the ancient sex trade through an exploration of the literary and artistic representation of prostitutes and the civic and domestic spaces they inhabited. -Laura K. McClure, coeditor of Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World

About Allison Glazebrook

Allison Glazebrook is associate professor of classics at Brock University, Ontario, Canada.

Madeleine M. Henry is professor of classical studies at Iowa State University and author of Menander's Courtesans and the Greek Comic Tradition and Prisoner of History: Aspasia of Miletus and Her Biographical Tradition.

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NLS9780299235642
9780299235642
0299235645
Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE by Allison Glazebrook
Allison Glazebrook
Wisconsin Studies in Classics
New
Paperback
University of Wisconsin Press
2011-01-30
360
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