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Courtesans at Table: Gender and Greek Literary Culture in Athenaeus
Courtesans at Table Gender and Greek Literary Culture in Athenaeus
Author: Laura McClure
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",...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780415939478
ISBN-10: 041593947X
Publication Date: 8/22/2003
Pages: 240
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Routledge
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