Courtesans at Table: Gender and Greek Literary Culture in AthenaeusWitty 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 second 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. |
Contents
Chapter | 3 |
Literary Nostalgia | 27 |
and the Literary Quotation | 37 |
and the Discourse on Hetaeras | 46 |
Conclusion | 57 |
The Witticisms of Courtesans and Attic Paideia | 79 |
Sympotic Mockery | 86 |
Philosophers and Courtesans | 101 |
Chapter 4 | 107 |
Chapter 6 | 167 |
Narrative Structure of Book 13 | 179 |
vii | 185 |
Courtesans and their Lovers | 199 |
Bibliography | 208 |
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