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UNINA9910815929703321 |
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Titolo |
Prostitutes and courtesans in the ancient world / / edited by Christopher A. Faraone and Laura K. McClure |
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Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-26994-1 |
9786612269943 |
0-299-21313-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Wisconsin studies in classics |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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FaraoneChristopher A |
McClureLaura <1959-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Prostitution - Greece - History |
Prostitution - Rome - History |
Courtesans - Greece - History |
Courtesans - Rome - History |
Sex role - Greece - History - To 1500 |
Sex role - Rome - History - To 1500 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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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. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-327) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Transliteration -- Introduction -- Prostitution and the Sacred -- Marriage, Divorce, and the Prostitute in Ancient Mesopotamia -- Prostitution in the Social World and the Religious Rhetoric of Ancient Israel -- Heavenly Bodies: Monuments to Prostitutes in Greek Sanctuaries -- Sacred Prostitution in the First Person -- Legal and Moral Discourses on Prostitution -- Free and Unfree Sexual Work: An Economic Analysis of Athenian Prostitution -- The Bad Girls of Athens: The Image and Function of Hetairai in Judicial Oratory -- The Psychology of Prostitution in Aeschines' Speech against Timarchus -- Zoning Shame in the Roman City -- The Politics of Prostitution: Clodia, Cicero, and Social Order in the Late Roman Republic -- Matrona and Whore: Clothing and Definition in Roman Antiquity -- Prostitution, |
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Comedy, and Public Performance -- Priestess and Courtesan: The Ambivalence of Female Leadership in Aristophanes' Lysistrata -- A Courtesan's Choreography: Female Liberty and Male Anxiety at the Roman Dinner Party -- Infamous Performers: Comic Actors and Female Prostitutes in Rome -- The Phallic Lesbian: Philosophy, Comedy, and SocialInversion in Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Index Locorum. |
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