| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 359 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-332) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Urban renewal. Design of the book ; Brothels in history ; Definitions ; Plan o f the book. -- Basic economics. The enterprise of venal sex ; The milieu of prostitution ; Ownership of brothels ; Operation of brothels ; Prices ; Recruitment ; Prostitution and the Roman economy. -- Zoning shame. Where the boys are ; Bad company ; Christian topography ; Augustinian policy. -- Honor and erotic art. Pornography as representation ; Things seen and heard ; Women and children first. -- The forces of law and order. Vice versus squad ; Constructive policy ; Official business ; "Sex clubs". -- The local demographics of venal sex. Brothels per capita ; Prostitutes per capita ; Sybaris on the Sarno. -- The great Pompeian brothel-gap. Eminent Victorians ; Counting brothels ; Defining brothel ; Cribs ; Adultery and brothels. -- The best of all possible brothels. Out of Pompeii ; The name of the rose ; Love shack. -- The city of Venus. Sex and the city ; Moral geography. -- Leaving Las Vegas. -- Appendices: A catalog of possible brothels at Pompeii ; A catalog of possible cribs at Pompeii ; A catalog of possible prostitutes at Pompeii. |
| Summary |
"This book is a study of the evidence for the business of female prostitution in the Roman world during the central part of Rome's history, a period extending from approximately 200 B.C. to A.D. 250. The main focus is on the economics of venal sex, meaning precisely the manner in which it was sold, a subject that extends to the ownership, operation, staffing, and location of brothels, as well as to various aspects of nonbrothel prostitution. Though the state of the evidence discourages any and all attempts at quantification, an attempt is made by the author to recover a sense of the role, the presence, and as much as is possible, the lived experience of prostitution city. Unlike most modern societies, the Roman political and legal authorities allowed the business of venal sex to proceed virtually unregulated, with a degree of tolerance that seems strange to a modern sensibility, but with consequences that emerge as sometimes equally foreign to us." "This book should appeal not only to a wide range of classicists, such as legal and social historians, archaeologists, and those interested in the status and role of women in antiquity, but also to scholars with similar specialties in other cultures and historical periods."--Jacket. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Prostitution -- History -- To 1500.
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Prostitution. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Prostitution -- Economic aspects -- Rome.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Female prostitution. |
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Prostitution. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: McGinn, Thomas A.J. Economy of prostitution in the Roman world. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2004 9780472113620 (DLC) 2003021579 (OCoLC)53138830 |
| ISBN |
9780472025824 (electronic book) |
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0472025821 (electronic book) |
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9780472113620 |
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0472113623 |
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0472113623 (alkaline paper) |
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