Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World

Contributors

329 Contributors phyllis a. bird is professor emerita of Old Testament interpretation at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and author of Missing Persons and Mistaken Identities: Women and Gender in Ancient Israel (1997). Her research interests center on the intersections of religion and culture in the world of ancient Israel and the literature of the Hebrew Bible, with particular attention to issues of women and gender. stephanie l. budin holds a PhD in ancient history from the University of Pennsylvania. Her main interests are religion, sex and gender, and crosscultural connections between the classical world and the Near East. Her first book was on the origin of Aphrodite, and she is currently working on two others: one on the iconography of the “Nude Goddess” and another on the origin and evolution of the myth of sacred prostitution. She teaches at Temple University edward e. cohen is an adjunct professor of ancient history and classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Resource America, Inc. Among his books are The Athenian Nation (2000) and Athenian Economy and Society: A Banking Perspective (1992). anne duncan is assistant professor of classics in the Department of Languages and Literatures at Arizona State University. She has published articles on performance issues in Greek and Roman drama. Her book Performances and Identity in the Classical World is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. christopher a. faraone is a professor of classics at the University of Chicago. He is author of Talismans and Trojan Horses: Guardian Statues in Ancient Greek Myth and Ritual (1992) and Ancient Greek Love Magic (1999) and a number of articles on Greek poetry, religion, and gender. He is coeditor of Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives: New Critical Perspectives (2003). 330 Contributors kate gilhuly is an assistant professor of classics at Wellesley College. She is the author of a doctoral thesis, “Excess Contained: Prostitution and the Polis in Classical Athens,” completed at the University of California at Berkeley, and is currently working on a manuscript about the construction of gender in classical Athens. allison glazebrook is an assistant professor of classics at Brock University . Her research relates to the social and cultural history of ancient Greece and focuses on gender and sexuality, prostitution, and ancient rhetoric . She has written articles on [Demosthenes] 59 and constructions of gender in Greek vase painting. sharon l. james is an associate professor of classics at the University of Chapel Hill at North Carolina. She is the author of Learned Girls and Male Persuasion : Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy (2003) and several articles on elegy, Roman Comedy, and Vergil. catherine m. keesling is an associate professor of classics at Georgetown University. Her publications include The Votive Statues of the Athenian Acropolis (2003) and articles on ancient Greek sculpture, epigraphy, and commemorative monuments. She is currently writing a book on the epigraphical evidence for Greek portraiture and the afterlives of Greek portrait statues. susan lape is an associate professor of classics at the University of Southern California. Her recent interests include Greek drama, law, and political theory. She has just completed Reproducing Athens: Menander’s Comedy, Democratic Culture, and the Hellenistic City (2004). She is currently working on a project on the history of the citizen in ancient Greece. laura k. mcclure is a professor of classics at the University of Wisconsin– Madison. Her books include Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender and Athenian Drama (1999) and Courtesans at Table: Gender and Greek Literary Culture in Athenaeus (2003). She has also written articles on tragedy, women in antiquity, and the classical tradition. marsha mccoy is a visiting assistant professor of classics at Austin College . Her doctoral dissertation studies Ciceronian political reform, considering the literary, philosophical, legal, and cultural aspects of Cicero’s efforts to reform Roman civil society. Her interests in civil society have led to work on Augustus, Vergil, and war, and to a current study of Petronius, in which she is examining the anxieties of gender, sexuality, humor, and politics in Nero’s Rome. thomas a. j. mcginn is an associate professor of classical studies at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome (1998), The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman World: A Study of Social History and the Brothel (2004), and a number of articles on Roman marriage, concubinage, and adultery...