Courtesans at Table: Gender and Greek Literary Culture in Athenaeus - Softcover

McClure, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041593947X ISBN 13: 9780415939478

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 041593947X
• ISBN 13: 9780415939478
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256