Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

Greek Prostitutes In The Ancient Mediterranean, 800 Bce{u2013}200 Ce Challenges The Often-romanticized 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. -- Publisher's Description. Why Prostitues? Why Greek? Why Now? / Allison Glazebrook And Madeleine M. Henry -- Traffic In Women : From Homer To Hipponax, From War To Commerce / Madeleine M. Henry --- Porneion : Prostitution In Athenian Civic Space / Allison Glazebrook -- Bringing The Outside In : The Andrōn As Brothel And The Symposium's Civic Sexuality / Sean Corner -- Woman + Wine = Prostitute In Classical Athens? / Clare Kelly Blazeby -- Embodying Sympotic Pleasure : A Visual Pun On The Body Of An Aulētris / Helen A. Coccagna -- Sex For Sale? Interpreting Erotica In The Havana Collection / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz -- Brothels At Delos : The Evidence For Prostitution In The Maritime World / T. Davina Mcclain And Nicholas K. Rauh -- Ballio's Brothel, Phoenicium's Letter, And The Literary Education Of Greco-roman Prostitutes : The Evidence Of Plautus's Pseudolus / Judith P. Hallett -- Prostitutes, Pimps, And Political Conspiracies During The Late Roman Republic -- Terminology Of Prostittuion In The Ancient Greek World / Konstantinos K. Kapparis -- Greek Brothels And More / Thomas A.j. Mcginn. Edited By Allison Glazebrook And Madeleine M. Henry. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Abbreviations and Transliterations......Page 10 Introduction: Why Prostitutes? Why Greek? Why Now?......Page 16 1. The Traffic in Women: From Homer to Hipponax, from War to Commerce......Page 27 2 Porneion: Prostitution in Athenian Civic Space......Page 47 3. Bringing the Outside In: The Andrön as Brothel and the Symposium’s Civic Sexuality......Page 73 4. Woman + Wine = Prostitute in Classical Athens?......Page 99 5. Embodying Sympotic Pleasure: A Visual Pun on the Body of an Aulëtris......Page 119 6. Sex for Sale? Interpreting Erotica in the Havana Collection......Page 135 7. The Brothels at Delos: The Evidence for Prostitution in the Maritime World......Page 160 8. Ballio’s Brothel, Phoenicium’s Letter, and the Literary Education of Greco-Roman Prostitutes: The Evidence of Plautus’s Pseudolus......Page 185 9. Prostitutes, Pimps, and Political Conspiracies during the Late Roman Republic......Page 210 10. The Terminology of Prostitution in the Ancient Greek World......Page 235 Conclusion: Greek Brothels and More......Page 269 References......Page 282 Contributors......Page 306 Index......Page 308 Index Locorum......Page 324 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Abbreviations and Transliterations 10 Introduction: Why Prostitutes? Why Greek? Why Now? 16 1. The Traffic in Women: From Homer to Hipponax, from War to Commerce 27 2 Porneion: Prostitution in Athenian Civic Space 47 3. Bringing the Outside In: The Andrön as Brothel and the Symposium’s Civic Sexuality 73 4. Woman + Wine = Prostitute in Classical Athens? 99 5. Embodying Sympotic Pleasure: A Visual Pun on the Body of an Aulëtris 119 6. Sex for Sale? Interpreting Erotica in the Havana Collection 135 7. The Brothels at Delos: The Evidence for Prostitution in the Maritime World 160 8. Ballio’s Brothel, Phoenicium’s Letter, and the Literary Education of Greco-Roman Prostitutes: The Evidence of Plautus’s Pseudolus 185 9. Prostitutes, Pimps, and Political Conspiracies during the Late Roman Republic 210 10. The Terminology of Prostitution in the Ancient Greek World 235 Conclusion: Greek Brothels and More 269 References 282 Contributors 306 Index 308 Index Locorum 324 ISBN,9780299235642,(pbk.:,alk.,paper),ISBN,9780299235635,(e-book) University of Wisconsin Press Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE - 200 CE challenges the often-romanticized 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. 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.