||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean 800 BCE to 200 CE|By Sean Folsom|A good collection of essays on recent digs and scholarship about these Women. Also of interest is in one find, the Women were Weaving, when not servicing their clients. This book includes a Glossary of the Greek Terms associated with this profession. My primary interest was about the||
|“By questioning the class-based polarity between courtesan (hetaira) and whore (porne), the authors substantially correct academic readings of the Greek prostitute as cultural construct, embedding them in gritty reality.”—Marilyn Skinn
Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE–200 CE challenges the often-romanticized view of the prostitute as an urbane and liberated courtesan by examining the social and economic realities of the sex industry in Greco-Roman culture. Departing from the conventional focus on elite society, these essays consider the Greek prostitute as displaced foreigner, slave, and member of an urban underclass.
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