This is a study of the legal rules affecting the practice of female prostitution at Rome approximately from 200 B.C. to A.D. 250. It examines the formation and precise content of the legal norms developed for prostitution and those engaged in this profession, with close attention to their social context. McGinn's unique study explores the "fit" between the law-system and the socio-economic reality while shedding light on important questions concerning marginal groups, marriage, sexual behavior, the family, slavery, and citizen status, particularly that of women.
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"McGinn's greatest contribution is his discussion of critical methodologies and his insistence on looking at the fullest social and political contexts within which prostitution existed."--Choice
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Thomas A. J. McGinn, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Vanderbilt University.
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This book is a study of the legal rules affecting the practice of female prostitution at Rome during the central part of its history, a period extending from approximately 200 B.C. to A.D. 250. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
domum praebere, feminae probrosae, ceteri ingenui, pretium accipere, facit fecerit, privileged accusation, serva prostituatur, civilian tax collectors, ius occidendi, quaestum facere, nonrespectable women, sciens dolo malo, manus iniectio, fecit fecerit, adultery statute, adulteries coercendis, correctio morum, mater familial, integrum restituere, accessory offenses, late classical jurists, criminal fornication, regimen morum, juristic treatment, mater familias Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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domum praebere, feminae probrosae, ceteri ingenui, pretium accipere, facit fecerit, privileged accusation, serva prostituatur, civilian tax collectors, ius occidendi, quaestum facere, nonrespectable women, sciens dolo malo, manus iniectio, fecit fecerit, adultery statute, adulteries coercendis, correctio morum, mater familial, integrum restituere, accessory offenses, late classical jurists, criminal fornication, regimen morum, juristic treatment, mater familias Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Spagnuolo Vigorita, Alexander Severus, Papia Poppaea, Aelia Sentia, Marcus Aurelius, Alvarez de Cienfuegos, Gold Diggers, Evans Grubbs, Lex Irnitana, Index Itp, Junian Latins, Deviant Behavior, Formigoni Candini, United States, Municipal Laws, Roman Egypt, Septimius Severus, Valerius Maximus, Antoninus Pius, Caecina Severus, Cultu Fem, Julius Caesar, Philadelphia Digest, Power of Images, Quintus Mucius New!
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