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

265 Pages·2016·24.19 MB·English

by  Allison Glazebrook

Houses of Ill Repute
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HOUSES
of
ILL REPUTE
Th e Archaeology
of Brothels, Houses, and Taverns
in the Greek World
Edited by
ALLISON GLAZEBROOK
and
BARBARA TSAKIRGIS
University of Pennsylvania Press
Philadelphia
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Glazebrook, Allison, 1966– editor. | Tsakirgis, Barbara, editor.
Title: Houses of ill repute : the archaeology of brothels,
houses, and taverns in the Greek world / edited by Allison Glazebrook and
Barbara Tsakirgis.
Description: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifi ers: LCCN 2015039979 | ISBN 9780812247565 (alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Dwellings— Social aspects— Greece— History. | Brothels—
Greece— History. | Bars (Drinking establishments)— Greece— History. |
Pottery— Social aspects— Greece. | Prostitution— Greece— History. |
Social archaeology— Greece.
Classifi cation: LCC DF99 .H68 2016 | DDC 306.740938/09009—d c23
LC rec ord available at http:// lccn . loc . gov / 2015039979
contents
List of Abbreviations vii
Introduction 1
Allison Glazebrook and Barbara Tsakirgis
Chapter 1. What Is a House? Conceptualizing the Greek House 13
Barbara Tsakirgis
Chapter 2. Can Pottery Help Distinguish a Brothel
from a Tavern or House? 36
Kathleen M. Lynch
Chapter 3. Patterns of Amphora Discard from Houses, Shops,
Taverns, and Brothels 59
Mark L. Lawall
Chapter 4. Building Z in the Athenian Kerameikos: House,
Tavern, Inn, Brothel? 75
Bradley A. Ault
Chapter 5. Locations of Ill Repute in Late Hellenistic Delos 103
Monika Trümper
Chapter 6. Dining and the Cult of Aphrodite: Th e Function
of the South Stoa at Corinth 129
David Scahill
Chapter 7. Looking Inside on the Outside of a Pot 143
Amy C. Smith
vi contents
Chapter 8. Is Th ere an Archaeology of Prostitution? 169
Allison Glazebrook
Notes 197
Bibliography 215
List of Contributors 239
Index 241
Acknowl edgments 255
Abbreviations and Transliteration
Abbreviations of ancient authors and works follow the Oxford Classical Dic-
tionary. Abbreviations of standard reference works appear below. Full details
for all other references can be found in the bibliography. In transliterating
Greek, we have used Latinized spellings for well-k nown place names and
authors, such as Isaeus, following the Oxford Classical Dictionary. We have
used a direct transliteration from Greek for all other Greek names and
terms.
ARV J. D. Beazley, Attic Red- Figure Vase- Painters, 1st ed. (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1942).
ARV2 J. D. Beazley, Attic Red- Figure Vase- Painters, 2nd ed. (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1963).
BAD Classical Art Research Centre, Beazley Archive Database,
Oxford, 1997– , http:// www . beazley . ox . ac . uk.
CVA Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum ([Vari ous places of publication],
1922–).
ID Inscriptions de Délos (Paris: H. Champion, 1926–72).
IG Inscriptiones Graecae, vols. 1–3: Attica (Berlin: Akademie der
Wissenschaften, 1873–).
LGPN II M. J. Osborne and S. G. Byrne, Lexicon of Greek Personal
Names, vol. 2: Attica (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994).
Para J. D. Beazley, Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black- Figure
Vase- Painters and to Attic Red- Figure Vase Paint ers, 2nd ed.
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971).
RVAp A. D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, Th e Red- Figured Vases of
Apulia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978–82).
SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum (Leiden, then Amster-
dam: Lugduni Batavorum apud A. W. Sijthoff , 1923–).
viii Abbreviations
Traill John S. Traill, Persons of Ancient Athens (Toronto: Athenians,
1994–2012).
UKV Karl Schefold, Untersuchungen zu den Kertscher Vasen (Berlin
and Leipzig: De Gruyter, 1934).
Introduction
allison glazebrook and barbara tsakirgis
Th e study of Hellenic urbanism has developed from an investigation of the evi-
dence for town planning, the identifi cation of par tic u lar architectural features
constituting a polis (fortifi cations, agora, bouleuterion, prytaneion, gymnasium,
temple, theater, and fountain houses), to considerations of “everyday life” based
on the physical remains of private structures, Greek oikiai. But what about ac-
tivity that exists somewhere between the public and private realms? Classical
Athenian writers attest to a diverse urban landscape that includes not only pri-
vate houses but also tenement houses (sunoikiai), inns (diaitai, pandokeia), facto-
ries (ergastēria), taverns (kapēleia), gambling dens (skirapheia), training schools
(didaskaleia), and brothels (porneia) (Isae. 6.19–21; Ar. Vesp. 109–14, 550; Dem.
27.19 and 28.12; Isoc. 287; Aeschin. 1.24). Yet, despite our knowledge of specifi c
terminology, associating these terms with actual physical remains is not an easy
task. Isaeus mentions a sunoikia in the Peiraeus housing prostitutes and one
in the Kerameikos district selling wine (Isae. 6.19–20). Aeschines refers to
doctors, smiths, fullers, carpenters, and pimps renting space in another (1.24).
Th e term sunoikia, regularly translated as tenement house, might have implied
not simply multioccupancy, but also multipurpose function.
Current research on Greek domestic architecture, furthermore, has
revealed the lack of zoning in ancient Greek cities (Tsakirgis 2005) and raises
questions concerning whether or not the physical polis should be thought of in
terms of a modern city where houses and commercial areas are largely separate.
Apollodoros, for example, suggests that his opponent Stephanos was running a
brothel out of his oikia ([Dem.] 59.67), that is, mixing private residential with
commercial function in one building. Depending on the interpretation of this