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.
Acknowledgments | p. VII |
Abbreviations and Transliterations | p. IX |
Introduction: Why Prostitutes? Why Greek? Why Now? | p. 3 |
The Traffic in Women: From Homer to Hipponax, from War to Commerce | p. 14 |
Porneion: Prostitution in Athenian Civic Space | p. 34 |
Bringing the Outside In: The Andron as Brothel and the Symposium's Civic Sexuality | p. 60 |
Woman + Wine = Prostitute in Classical Athens? | p. 86 |
Embodying Sympotic Pleasure: A Visual Pun on the Body of an Auletris | p. 106 |
Sex for Sale? Interpreting Erotica in the Havana Collection | p. 122 |
The Brothels at Delos: The Evidence for Prostitution in the Maritime World | p. 147 |
Ballio's Brothel, Phoenicium's Letter, and the Literary Education of Greco-Roman Prostitutes: The Evidence of Plautus's Pseudolus | p. 172 |
Prostitutes, Pimps, and Political Conspiracies during the Late Roman Republic | p. 197 |
The Terminology of Prostitution in the Ancient Greek World | p. 222 |
Conclusion: Greek Brothels and More | p. 256 |
References | p. 269 |
Contributors | p. 293 |
Index | p. 295 |
Index Locorum | p. 311 |
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