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Prostitutes and courtesans in the ancient world / edited by Christopher A. Faraone and Laura K. McClure

Published
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2006]
Copyright Date
©2006
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 360 pages).
Additional Creators
Faraone, Christopher A. and McClure, Laura, 1959-
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Language Note
English.
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.
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0299213137 (electronic bk.)
9780299213138 (electronic bk.)
1282269941
9781282269941
9786612269943
6612269944
0299213102 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780299213107 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0299213145 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780299213145 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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Note
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 Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-327) and index.
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