In ancient Athens, where freedom of speech derived from the power of male citizenship, women's voices were seldom heard in public. Female speech was more often represented in theatrical productions th
Though the heyday of courtesans, or hetaeras in the Greek literary tradition was in classical Athens in the fourth century B.C.E, the fullest accounts of them are by Greek sophists living in the Roman
This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and publi
Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World explores the implications of sex-for-pay across a broad span of time, from ancient Mesopotamia to the early Christian period. I
