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050 00 $aHQ113$b.M34 2004
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100 1 $aMcGinn, Thomas A.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92004290
245 14 $aThe economy of prostitution in the Roman world :$ba study of social history & the brothel /$cThomas A.J. McGinn.
260 $aAnn Arbor :$bUniversity of Michigan Press,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $axv, 359 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 303-332) and indexes.
505 00 $g1.$tUrban Renewal --$g2.$tBasic Economics --$g3.$tZoning Shame --$g4.$tHonor and Erotic Art --$g5.$tThe Forces of Law and Order --$g6.$tThe Local Demographics of Venal Sex --$g7.$tThe Great Pompeian Brothel-Gap --$g8.$tThe Best of All Possible Brothels --$g9.$tThe City of Venus --$g10.$tLeaving Las Vegas --$gApp. 1.$tA Catalog of Possible Brothels at Pompeii --$gApp. 2.$tA Catalog of Possible Cribs at Pompeii --$gApp. 3.$tA Catalog of Possible Prostitutes at Pompeii.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aProstitution$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aProstitution$xEconomic aspects$zRome.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip049/2003021579.html
852 00 $bglx$hHQ113$i.M34 2004
852 00 $bbar$hHQ113$i.M34 2004