Neaera - Writing a Prostitutes Life

Highlighting the role women played in Athenian society, Madeleine Henry here examines the fascinating life of Neaera.Her life story, real or otherwise, will fascinate students of classical studies through the publication of this significant book

List of contents

Introduction Against Neaera and the Construction of Prostitutional Sexuality Ways to Read the Speech Permeable Boundries of Athenian Society

Summary

Highlighting the role women played in Athenian society, this work examines the fascinating life of Neaera. In the course of her life, Neaera occupied almost every role that was played by a women in Athens: child, daughter, wife, mother, and "lady of the house"; slave, freed, free; prostitute; upstanding and respectable, criminal and adulterous.

Product details

• Authors: Madelein Henry, Madeleine Henry
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.01.2010, delayed
• EAN: 9780415331494
• ISBN: 978-0-415-33149-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Women of the Ancient World; Women of the Ancient World
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History