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Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World (Paperback)
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Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World (Paperback)
Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics
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"Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World" explores the
implications of sex-for-pay across a broad span of time, from
ancient Mesopotamia to the early Christian period. In ancient
times, although they were socially marginal, prostitutes connected
with almost every aspect of daily life. They sat in brothels and
walked the streets; they paid taxes and set up dedications in
religious sanctuaries; they appeared as characters--sometimes
admirable, sometimes despicable--on the comic stage and in the law
courts; they lived lavishly, consorting with famous poets and
politicians; and they participated in otherwise all-male banquets
and drinking parties, where they aroused jealousy among their
anxious lovers.
The chapters in this volume examine a wide variety of genres and
sources, from legal and religious tracts to the genres of lyric
poetry, love elegy, and comic drama to the graffiti scrawled on the
walls of ancient Pompeii. These essays reflect the variety and
vitality of the debates engendered by the last three decades of
research by confronting the ambiguous terms for prostitution in
ancient languages, the difficulty of distinguishing the prostitute
from the woman who is merely promiscuous or adulterous, the
question of whether sacred or temple prostitution actually existed
in the ancient Near East and Greece, and the political and social
implications of literary representations of prostitutes and
courtesans.
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