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 2nd 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.
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Laura K. McClure is Associate Professor of Classics and Chair of the Integrated Liberal Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has edited two essay collections on women and sexuality in ancient Greece, and has written a book on speech and gender in Greek drama.
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Second Sophistic, Asia Minor, Demetrius Poliorcetes, Cnidian Aphrodite, Machon's Chreiae, Alexander the Great, Aristophanes of Byzantium, Attic Greek, Palatine Anthology, Plato's Symposium, Sacred Way, Against Lais, Aphrodite Porne, Cleanor of Athens, Diogenes Laertius, Geloia Apomnemoneumata, Imperial Rome, Little Fish, Teary Laughter, Against Patrocles, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Lucian Dial, Near East New!
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Nostalgia-the longing for a remote past and its imagined wholeness, figured by Freud as fragmented statuary-has long been considered the hallmark of Second Sophistic discourse. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prostitution terminology, term hetaera, courtesan treatises, word hetaera, impiety trial, epideictic display, comic discourse, brothel workers, other courtesans, dedicatory offerings, secondary names, sexual incontinence, old comedy, comic theater, comic stage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Second Sophistic, Asia Minor, Demetrius Poliorcetes, Cnidian Aphrodite, Machon's Chreiae, Alexander the Great, Aristophanes of Byzantium, Attic Greek, Palatine Anthology, Plato's Symposium, Sacred Way, Against Lais, Aphrodite Porne, Cleanor of Athens, Diogenes Laertius, Geloia Apomnemoneumata, Imperial Rome, Little Fish, Teary Laughter, Against Patrocles, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Lucian Dial, Near East New!
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- The Second Sophistic: A Cultural Phenomenon in the Roman Empire by Graham Anderson on 4 pages
- Greece and Rome (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) by Joan R. Mertens in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Search for the Ancient Novel by Professor James Tatum in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love (New Ancient World Series) by David M Halperin in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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