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Author Glazebrook, Allison, 1966- author.

Title Sexual labor in the Athenian courts / Allison Glazebrook
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 246 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Under the influence: sex laborers and masculinity -- Locating Alke: sex laborers in the oikos -- Neaira and Phano at home and in the polis -- The erotics of sexual labor and same sex desire -- Timarchean "whores": sex laborers and the polis
Summary "Ancient Greek oratory has long been seen as a source for cultural and historical information, in this case on sexual labor, which is generally treated differently within ancient speeches than within other genres, such as comedy or philosophy. Oratory provides evidence of male and female sex laborers, the private ownership of sex slaves, Athenian brothels, sex traffickers (the majority of whom appear to have been female), the cost of sex, the use of contracts between sex laborers and clients, manumission practices for sex slaves, and even the sharing of a sex laborer between two clients (as either joint owners or through a contract for exclusive use). As opposed to the stereotypical witty, educated hetaira that appears in other Athenian literature, sex laborers as they appear in Athenian speeches are portrayed as potentially dangerous transgressors that threaten social on both male and female sex laborers found within. Each chapter focuses on a specific theme (such as desire, the household, or dangerous women) and uses that as a touchstone to examine the representations of prostitutes and sexuality within the speech. Although prostitution was legal in ancient Athens, it was often complicated by notions of gender and sex, citizenship, slavery and ownership, and other issues that become apparent in the speeches. The variety of ways in which prostitution was approached within oratory help reveal the complex cultural constructions around the activity. Glazebrook shows that the different ways in which sex laborers interact with each other and with society as a whole, as depicted in the speeches, reveal the complexity and diversity not only of sexual labor itself, but also of the attitudes, ambiguities, and anxieties that surrounded sexual labor in classical Athens"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis sex work, Ancient Athens, Athenian courts, oratory, sexual labor, gender theory, ancient Greece, classical Athens, prostitution
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 04, 2022)
Subject Prostitution -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500
Prostitution -- Social aspects -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- Greece -- Athens
HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
Civilization
Manners and customs
Prostitution
Prostitution -- Social aspects
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
SUBJECT Athens (Greece) -- Social life and customs -- History -- To 1500
Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057041
Athens (Greece) -- Civilization -- History -- To 1500
Subject Greece
Greece -- Athens
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021003514
ISBN 9781477324424
1477324429
9781477324417
1477324410