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- Prostitution in the Roman Empire
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- Most of the articles listed below are in the Dig Sites folder on Camino : Files; many of the books are on hard copy reserve at the Circulation Desk in the Learning Commons.
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- Archaeological & Epigraphic Evidence
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- Glazebrook, Allison. "Is There an Archaeology of Prostitution?" In Houses of Ill Repute: The Archaeology of Brothels, Houses, and Taverns in the Greek World (ed. Allison Glazebrook and Barbara Tsakirgis; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) 169-96. [This book is about ancient Greece rather than Rome, but this essay discusses the evidence of Pompeii.]
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- Laurence, Ray. Roman Pompeii: Space and Society. New York: Routledge, 2007.
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- Levin-Richardson, Sarah. "Sex, Sight, and Societas in the Lupanar, Pompeii." Paper presented at Stanford University (January 2005). Online, http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/
projects/SeeingThePast/admin/
download.html?attachid=120841, accessed 2 November 2013.
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- McGinn, Thomas A. J. The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman World: A Study of Social History and the Brothel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. [esp. ch. 1]
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- --------. "Pompeian Brothels and Social History." In Pompeian Brothels, Pompeii's Ancient History, Mirrors and Mysteries, Art and Nature at Oplontis, the Herculaneum "Basilica" (ed. P. Carafa, J. J. De Grummond, B. Bergmann, T. Najbjerg and Thomas A. J. McGinn; JRA supplement 47; Portsmouth, Rhode Island: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2002) 7-46.
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- --------. "Zoning Shame in the Roman City." In Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World (ed. Christopher A. Faraone and Laura K. McClure; Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006) 161-76.
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- Literary Evidence
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- Primary Texts
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- Anonymous. "Mary, the Niece of Abraham of Quidun," excerpt from "The Life of Abraham." In Holy Women of the Syrian Orient (ed. Sebastian Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998) 27-39.
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- Deacon James. "Life of Pelagia the Harlot," trans. Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey. In Holy Women of the Syrian Orient (ed. Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998) 40-62.
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- Sophronius. "Life of St. Mary of Egypt," trans. Maria Kouli. In Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints' Lives in English Translation (ed. Alice-Mary Talbot; Byzantine Saints' Lives in Translation; Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1996) 65-93.
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- Talbot, Alice-Mary, ed. Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints' Lives in English Translation. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2006. [some chapters cover the holy harlots]
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- Secondary Literature
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- Anson, John. "The Female Transvestite in Early Monasticism: The Origin and Development of a Motif." Viator 5 (1974) 1-32.
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- Brock, Ann Graham. Mary Magdalene, The First Apostle: The Struggle for Authority. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
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- Brock, Sebastian P. and Susan Ashbrook Harvey. "Preface to the Paperback Edition," "Updated Bibliography on Women in Syriac Christianity," and "Introduction." In Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, rev. ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998; original 1987) xii-xix, 1-26. [See chapters for material on the holy harlots]
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- Burrus, Virginia. "Secrets of Seduction: The Lives of Holy Harlots." In The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) 128-59, 192-7.
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- Coon, Lynda L. Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity, The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
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- Crisafulli, T. "Representations of the Feminine: The Prostitute in Roman Comedy." In Ancient History in a Modern University: Proceedings of a Conference Held at Macquarie University, 8-13 July 1993 To Mark the Twenty-five Years of the Teaching of Ancient History at Macquarrie University and the Retirement from the Chair of Professor Edwin Judge, vol. 1, The Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome (ed. Tom W. Hillard, R. A. Kearsley, C. E. V. Nixon and A. M. Nobbs; North Ryde, N.S.W./Grand Rapids, Michigan: Ancient History Documentary Research Centre, Macquarie University/William B. Eerdmans, 1998) 1.222-9.
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- D'Angelo, Mary Rose. "Reconstructing 'Real' Women from Gospel Literature: The Case of Mary Magdalene." In Women and Christian Origins (ed. Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D'Angelo; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) 105-28.
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- Davis, Stephen J. "Crossed Texts, Crossed Sex: Intertextuality and Gender in Early Christian Legends of Holy Women Disguised as Men." Journal of Early Christian Studies 10:1 (2002) 1-36.
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- Duncan, Anne. "Infamous Performers: Comic Actors and Female Prostitutes in Rome." In Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World (ed. Christopher A. Faraone and Laura K. McClure; Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006) 252-73.
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- Edwards, Catharine. "Unspeakable Professions: Public Performance and Prostitution in Ancient Rome." In Roman Sexualities (ed. Judith P. Hallett and Marilyn B. Skinner; Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997) 66-95.
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- Ehrman, Bart D. Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
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- Faraone, Christopher A. and Laura K. McClure, eds. Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.
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- Fleming, Rebecca. "Quae corpore quaestum facit: The Sexual Economy of Female Prostitution in the Roman Empire." Journal of Roman Studies 89 (1999) 38-61.
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- Gardner, Jane F. "Women at Work." In Women in Roman Law and Society (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991) 233-56.
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- Harvey, Susan Ashbrook. "The Holy and the Poor: Models from Early Syriac Christianity." In Through the Eye of a Needle: Judeo-Christian Roots of Social Welfare (ed. Emily Albu Hanawalt and Carter Lindberg; Kirksville, Missouri: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1994) 43-66.
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- --------. "Why the Perfume Mattered: The Sinful Woman in Syriac Exegetical Tradition." In In Dominico Eloquio/In Lordly Eloquence: Essays on Patristic Exegesis in Honor of Robert Louis Wilken (ed. Paul M. Blowers, Angela Russell Christman, David G. Hunter and Robin Darling Young; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002) 69-89.
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- --------. "Women in Early Syrian Christianity." In Images of Women in Antiquity, rev. ed. (ed. Averil Cameron and Amélie Kuhrt; Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993; original 1983) 288-98.
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- Haskins, Susan. Mary Magdalene: Myth and Metaphor. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1993.
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- McGinn, Thomas A. J. Prostitution and Julio-Claudian Legislation: The Formation of Social Policy in Early Imperial Rome. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1986.
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- --------. Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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- Miller, Patricia Cox. "Desert Asceticism and 'The Body from Nowhere.'" Journal of Early Christian Studies 2:2 (1994) 137-53.
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- --------. "Is there a Harlot in This Text? Asceticism and the Grotesque." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33 (2003) 419-35.
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- --------. "Visceral Seeing: The Holy Body in Late Ancient Christianity." Journal of Early Christian Studies 12:4 (2004) 391-411.
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- Pavlovskis, Zoja. "The Life of St. Pelagia the Harlot; Hagiographic Adaptation of Pagan Romance." Classical Folia 30:2 (1976) 138-49.
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- Pitcher, R. A. "Martial and Roman Sexuality." In Ancient History in a Modern University: Proceedings of a Conference Held at Macquarie University, 8-13 July 1993 To Mark the Twenty-five Years of the Teaching of Ancient History at Macquarrie University and the Retirement from the Chair of Professor Edwin Judge, vol. 1, The Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome (ed. Tom W. Hillard, R. A. Kearsley, C. E. V. Nixon and A. M. Nobbs; North Ryde, N.S.W./Grand Rapids, Michigan: Ancient History Documentary Research Centre, Macquarie University/William B. Eerdmans, 1998) 1.309-315.
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- Schaberg, Jane. The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha and the Christian Testament. New York: Continuum, 2002.
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- Stevenson, Jane. "The Holy Sinner: The Life of Mary of Egypt." In The Legend of Mary of Egypt in Medieval Insular Hagiography (ed. Erich Poppe and Bianca Ross; Dublin: Four Courts, 1996) 19-50.
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- Voobus, Arthur. A History of Asceticism in the Syrian Orient, 2 vols., Subsidia 14, 17. Louvain: Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 1958.
Warner, Marina. "The Penitent Whore." In Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (New York: Vintage, 1976) 224-35, 382-3.
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