Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World explores the implications of sex-for-pay across a broad span of time. English Pages [] Year The only book of its kind in any language, Travel in the Ancient World offers a lively, comprehensive history of ancient.
The author takes you into the vivid reality of the worlds most critique profession and its surrounding elements. Bisexuality was intrinsic to the cultures of the ancient world.
In both Greece and Rome, sexual relationships between me. Volume 55,2 presents the contributions of the eighth meeting of the Working Group Legal Documents in Ancient Societies,. This book examines the ethical dilemmas and arguments about abortion, very similar to our own, which exercised Greek and.
Intoxication in the Ancient Greek and Roman World considers the psychotropic plants used in the ancient world and ancien. Social coexistence is made possible and regulated by norms. Which actions are labeled and sanctioned as transgressions o. In ancient times, although they were socially marginal, prostitutes connected with almost every aspect of daily life. They sat in brothels and walked the streets; they paid taxes and set up dedications in religious sanctuaries; they appeared as charactersβsometimes admirable, sometimes despicableβon the comic stage and in the law courts; they lived lavishly, consorting with famous poets and politicians; and they participated in otherwise all male banquets and drinking parties, where they aroused jealousy among their anxious lovers.
The chapters in this volume examine a wide variety of genres and sources, from legal and religious tracts to the genres of lyric poetry, love elegy, and comic drama to the graffiti scrawled on the walls of ancient Pompeii.
