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University of Texas Press, 2021
Oratory is a valuable source for reconstructing the practices, legalities, and attitudes surround... more Oratory is a valuable source for reconstructing the practices, legalities, and attitudes surrounding sexual labor in classical Athens. It provides evidence of male and female sex laborers, sex slaves, brothels, sex traffickers, the cost of sex, contracts for sexual labor, and manumission practices for sex slaves. Yet the witty, wealthy, and independent hetaira well-known from other genres, does not feature. Its detailed narratives and character portrayals provide a unique discourse on sexual labor and reveal the complex relationship between such labor and Athenian society.
Through a holistic examination of five key speeches, Sexual Labor in the Athenian Courts considers how portrayals of sex laborers intersected with gender, the body, sexuality, the family, urban spaces, and the polis in the context of the Athenian courts. Drawing on gender theory and exploring questions of space, place, and mobility, Allison Glazebrook shows how sex laborers represented a diverse set of anxieties concerning social legitimacy and how the public discourse about them is in fact a discourse on Athenian society, values, and institutions.
Papers by Allison Glazebrook
Slavery and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity. Eds. D. Kamen and C.W. Marshall. University of Wisconsin Press. 141-58, 2021
This paper explores how Demosthenes 19.196-98, narrating the violent treatment of a woman at a sy... more This paper explores how Demosthenes 19.196-98, narrating the violent treatment of a woman at a symposium, configures female sexual agency for free women versus enslaved and how such constructions of agency relate to status in the Athenian household. It will be of interest to anyone researching female sexuality, slavery, sexual violence, or the Athenian household.
Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World edited by Christopher A. Faraone and Laura K. McClure. University of Wisconsin Press, 2006
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2017
This chapter investigates the relation between gender and slavery among the Greeks and Romans. It... more This chapter investigates the relation between gender and slavery among the Greeks and Romans. It considers the gendered division of labour for enslaved people with a special emphasis on enslaved females and female enslavers in the domestic context. Important topics covered include sexual violence against enslaved individuals, manumission, and prostitutes as enslaved. It argues that enslaved females were most common in domestic contexts and the sex and entertainment industry. Both contexts, however, meant that they were open to sexual abuse, but close contact with the free might also benefit enslaved women by leading to their manumission. Enslaved people frequently appear outside ancient constructions of gender, officially denied socio-political status as husbands, wives, fathers, and mothers, and free from behavioural expectations like male courage and female virtue; but this lack of a gendered identity was likely another element of their oppression.
Houses of Il Repute: The Archaeology of Brothels, Houses, and Taverns in the Greek World. Edited by A. Glazebrook and B. Tsakirgis. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press., 2016
Sex in Antiquity: New Essays on Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World. Edited by Mark Masterson, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, and James Robson., 2015
Mouseion, Series III, 2005
Helios 42.1: 81-102, 2015
Dike: Rivista di Storia del diritto greco ed ellenisitico, 2005
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World, 2011
A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, 2014
A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity, 2013
A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, 2014
Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE, 2011
University of Texas Press, 2021
Oratory is a valuable source for reconstructing the practices, legalities, and attitudes surround... more Oratory is a valuable source for reconstructing the practices, legalities, and attitudes surrounding sexual labor in classical Athens. It provides evidence of male and female sex laborers, sex slaves, brothels, sex traffickers, the cost of sex, contracts for sexual labor, and manumission practices for sex slaves. Yet the witty, wealthy, and independent hetaira well-known from other genres, does not feature. Its detailed narratives and character portrayals provide a unique discourse on sexual labor and reveal the complex relationship between such labor and Athenian society.
Through a holistic examination of five key speeches, Sexual Labor in the Athenian Courts considers how portrayals of sex laborers intersected with gender, the body, sexuality, the family, urban spaces, and the polis in the context of the Athenian courts. Drawing on gender theory and exploring questions of space, place, and mobility, Allison Glazebrook shows how sex laborers represented a diverse set of anxieties concerning social legitimacy and how the public discourse about them is in fact a discourse on Athenian society, values, and institutions.
Slavery and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity. Eds. D. Kamen and C.W. Marshall. University of Wisconsin Press. 141-58, 2021
This paper explores how Demosthenes 19.196-98, narrating the violent treatment of a woman at a sy... more This paper explores how Demosthenes 19.196-98, narrating the violent treatment of a woman at a symposium, configures female sexual agency for free women versus enslaved and how such constructions of agency relate to status in the Athenian household. It will be of interest to anyone researching female sexuality, slavery, sexual violence, or the Athenian household.
Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World edited by Christopher A. Faraone and Laura K. McClure. University of Wisconsin Press, 2006
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2017
This chapter investigates the relation between gender and slavery among the Greeks and Romans. It... more This chapter investigates the relation between gender and slavery among the Greeks and Romans. It considers the gendered division of labour for enslaved people with a special emphasis on enslaved females and female enslavers in the domestic context. Important topics covered include sexual violence against enslaved individuals, manumission, and prostitutes as enslaved. It argues that enslaved females were most common in domestic contexts and the sex and entertainment industry. Both contexts, however, meant that they were open to sexual abuse, but close contact with the free might also benefit enslaved women by leading to their manumission. Enslaved people frequently appear outside ancient constructions of gender, officially denied socio-political status as husbands, wives, fathers, and mothers, and free from behavioural expectations like male courage and female virtue; but this lack of a gendered identity was likely another element of their oppression.
Houses of Il Repute: The Archaeology of Brothels, Houses, and Taverns in the Greek World. Edited by A. Glazebrook and B. Tsakirgis. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press., 2016
Sex in Antiquity: New Essays on Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World. Edited by Mark Masterson, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, and James Robson., 2015
Mouseion, Series III, 2005
Helios 42.1: 81-102, 2015
Dike: Rivista di Storia del diritto greco ed ellenisitico, 2005
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World, 2011
A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, 2014
A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity, 2013
A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, 2014
Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE, 2011
