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  title info:
    title: Phryne of Thespiae
    sub title: courtesan, muse, and myth
  title info:
    title: Courtesan, muse, and myth
  name:
    name part: McClure, Laura
    name part: 1959-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 201 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: "Phryne of Thespiae: Courtesan, Muse, and Myth is the first comprehensive attempt to reconstruct the life of an Athenian courtesan who lived and worked in fourth-century Athens. Although considered the most famous of the many Greek courtesans who flocked to Athens during this period, Phryne became even more popular in the later literary tradition, which continually reimagined and embellished her stories. They recounted again and again how she served as the model for the Praxiteles' Cnidian Aphrodite, the first monumental female nude in Western art, and how the sight of her naked body won acquittal when she was prosecuted for impiety. But she left no writings in her own words and only a handful of fragments related to her have survived from her time. The primary evidence for her life comes down to us from texts composed hundreds of years after her death, all of them written by men, whose works reflect the changing tastes, experiences, and values of Greeks living under Roman rule. Through a close analysis of the evidence for Athenian sexual labor in classical Athens and drawing on parallels with other Greek courtesans, this book argues that key aspects of her biography, even those that have been dismissed as male fantasies, could have plausibly originated in historical events. The portrait that emerges is that of a powerful and socially consequential woman whose wealth and connections helped to shape the society in which she lived"--
  note: Laura McClure.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gr---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Phrynē
  subject:
    topic: Women
    geographic: Greece
    geographic: Athens
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Courtesans
    geographic: Greece
    geographic: Athens
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Sex role
    geographic: Greece
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Femmes
    geographic: Grèce
    geographic: Athènes
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Courtisanes
    geographic: Grèce
    geographic: Athènes
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Biography & non-fiction prose
  subject:
    topic: Biography
  classification: DF233.8.P65 M44 2024
  classification: 938/.5092 B
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Phryne of Thespiae
    name:
      name part: McClure, Laura, 1959-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
    identifier: (DLC) 2024013791
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Women in antiquity
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240326
    record change date: 20260319204722.6
    record identifier: in00005726944
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng