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The myth of sacred prostitution in antiquity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Budin, Stephanie Lynn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Prostitution > History > To 1500.
Prostitution > Historiography.
Prostitution > Religious aspects.
Literature, Ancient > History and criticism.
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Publisher description
Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The ancient Near Eastern data
  • The so-called "evidence"
  • Herodotos
  • In the footsteps of Herodotos : Lucian and "Jeremiah"
  • Pindar fragment 122
  • Strabo, confused and misunderstood
  • Klearkhos, Justinus, and Valerius Maximus
  • Archaeological "evidence" from Italy
  • The early Christian rhetoric
  • Last myths.