Courtesans at Table

Courtesans at Table
Author: Laura McClure
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317794141

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Witty nicknames, crude jokes, public nudity and lavish monuments, all of these things distinguished Greek courtesans from respectable citizen women in ancient Greece. Although prostitutes appear as early as archaic Greek lyric poetry, our fullest accounts come from the late second century CE. Drawing on Book 13 of the Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae--which contains almost all known references to hetaeras from all periods of Greek literature--Laura K. McClure has created a window onto the ways ancient Greeks perceived the courtesan and the role of the courtesan in Greek life.


Courtesans at Table
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Laura McClure
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-25 - Publisher: Routledge

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Witty nicknames, crude jokes, public nudity and lavish monuments, all of these things distinguished Greek courtesans from respectable citizen women in ancient G
Courtesans at Table
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Laura McClure
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-25 - Publisher: Routledge

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Pages: 379
Authors: Christopher A. Faraone
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-03-14 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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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 Chri
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Language: en
Pages: 261
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Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-01 - Publisher: Routledge

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The Courtesan's Arts
Language: en
Pages: 428
Authors: Martha Feldman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-23 - Publisher: OUP USA

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