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Houses of Ill Repute: The Archaeology of Brothels, Houses, and Taverns in the Greek World

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The study of ancient Greek urbanism has moved from examining the evidence for town planning and the organization of the city-state, or polis, to considerations of “on a regular basis life.” That may be, it has moved from studying the public (fortifications, marketplaces, council houses, gymnasiums, temples, theaters, fountain houses) to studying the private (the physical remains of Greek houses). But what of those buildings that housed activities neither public nor private—brothels, taverns, and other homes of illicit activity? Can they be distinguished from houses? Were businesses like these run from homes? Classical Athenian writers attest to a diverse urban landscape that included tenement houses (sunoikiai), inns (diaitai, pandokeia), factories (ergasteria), taverns (kapelia), gambling dens (skirapheia), training schools (didaskaleia), and brothels (porneia), yet, in spite of our knowledge of specific terms, associating them with actual physical remains has not been easy. One such creator, Isaeus, mentions tenement houses that hosted prostitutes and wine sellers, At the same time as his latest Aeschines refers to doctors, smiths, fullers, carpenters, and pimps renting space. Were tenement houses not simply multi-inhabitant spaces but also multipurpose ones?

Houses of Sick Repute is the first book to concentrate on the difficulties of distinguishing private and semiprivate spaces. At the same time as others have studied houses or brothels, this volume looks at both together. The chapters, by leading scholars in the field, address such questions as “What is a house?” and “Did the business of prostitution leave at the back of a unique archaeological record?” Presenting several approaches to identifying and studying distinctions between domestic residences and houses of Sick repute, and drawing at the fields of literature, history, and art history and theory, the volume’s contributors provide a way forward for the study of domestic and entertainment spaces in the Hellenic world.

Contributors: Bradley A. Ault, Allison Glazebrook, Mark L. Lawall, Kathleen M. Lynch, David Scahill, Amy C. Smith, Monika Trümper, Barbara Tsakirgis.

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