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Houses of Ill Repute : The Archaeology of Brothels, Houses, and Taverns in the Greek World / Allison Glazebrook, Barbara Tsakirgis.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource : 59 illusContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812292695
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleLOC classification:
  • DF99 .H68 2016eb
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. What Is a House? Conceptualizing the Greek House -- Chapter 2. Can Pottery Help Distinguish a Brothel from a Tavern or House? -- Chapter 3. Patterns of Amphora Discard from Houses, Shops, Taverns, and Brothels -- Chapter 4. Building Z in the Athenian Kerameikos: House, Tavern, Inn, Brothel? -- Chapter 5. Locations of Ill Repute in Late Hellenistic Delos -- Chapter 6. Dining and the Cult of Aphrodite: Th e Function of the South Stoa at Corinth -- Chapter 7. Looking Inside on the Outside of a Pot -- Chapter 8. Is There an Archaeology of Prostitution? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2016Title is part of eBook package: Penn eBook Package 2014-2015Summary: Houses of Ill Repute is the first book to focus on the difficulties of distinguishing between private homes and buildings, such as brothels and taverns, which housed activities neither public nor private in ancient Greece, providing a way forward for the study of domestic and entertainment spaces in the Hellenic world.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. What Is a House? Conceptualizing the Greek House -- Chapter 2. Can Pottery Help Distinguish a Brothel from a Tavern or House? -- Chapter 3. Patterns of Amphora Discard from Houses, Shops, Taverns, and Brothels -- Chapter 4. Building Z in the Athenian Kerameikos: House, Tavern, Inn, Brothel? -- Chapter 5. Locations of Ill Repute in Late Hellenistic Delos -- Chapter 6. Dining and the Cult of Aphrodite: Th e Function of the South Stoa at Corinth -- Chapter 7. Looking Inside on the Outside of a Pot -- Chapter 8. Is There an Archaeology of Prostitution? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Houses of Ill Repute is the first book to focus on the difficulties of distinguishing between private homes and buildings, such as brothels and taverns, which housed activities neither public nor private in ancient Greece, providing a way forward for the study of domestic and entertainment spaces in the Hellenic world.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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