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Abstract

The ancient sources on Lais are misleading: apparently they concern only one hetaira, but actually they must refer to two or even three "courtesans" of the same name. This naturally reduces the possibility of writing the biography of a single hetaira called Lais, but on the other hand allows us to trace a genre biography, true, in its main lines, for more than one "courtesan" of Antiquity. "Lais", the second, for whom we dispose of more individualised historical details, was a hetaira of brilliant erotic and social success, but she was at the beginning of her life a prisoner of war, sold as a slave in Sicily and then moving to Corinth. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

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Title
Schiave, etere e prostitute nella Grecia antica. La vicenda emblematica di Laide
Author
Paradiso, Annalisa
Pages
107-130
Publication year
2009
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Firenze University Press Università degli Studi di Firenze
ISSN
18267513
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English, Italian
ProQuest document ID
747089631
Copyright
Copyright Firenze University Press 2009