Laura Mcclure

Courtesans at Table (eBook, PDF)

Gender and Greek Literary Culture in Athenaeus

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Produktbeschreibung

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 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317794158
• Artikelnr.: 40529781

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION The Courtesan as Fetish / Ancient Greek
Terms for Prostitutes Distinguishing the Hetaera from the Porne The Pallake
The Auletris and Other Female Entertainers The Eromene Conclusion CHAPTER
ONE Genres of Courtesans: Athenaeus and Nostalgia Athenaeus and the
Literary Symposium Genres of Courtesans: Athenaeus and the Literary
Quotation Book 13 and the Discourse on Hetaeras Cynulcus' Invective against
Hetaeras Myrtilus' Encomium of Hetaeras Conclusion CHAPTER TWO The Women
Most Mentioned: The Names of Athenian Courtesans The Problem of Names The
Names of Athenian Women / Attic Identity, Foreign Birth The Names of
Hetaeras The Names of Slaves The Use of the Metronymic Conclusion CHAPTER
THREE Parody and Subversion: The Witticisms of Courtesans Flattery,
Riddles, and Double Entendres Hetaeras as Poets and Poets as Hetaeras
Sympotic Mocker The Laughter of Hetaeras The Chreia as a Literary Genre
Tragic Humor, Comic Obscenity Philosophers and Courtesans / Conclusion
CHAPTER FOUR