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what are the three prescribed literary sources for this topic

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plutarch, pericles, 1.24, cicero pro caelio 49 -51 and catullyys 7.8. and 83

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what is prostitution

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a trade where sexual acts are performed in exchange for money

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what is a porne

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a low class greek prostitute who would have worked in a brothel

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what is a hetaira

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a high class greek prostitute or couteasean who may habe lived in her own house, chosen her clients and charged a higher price for her company

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what is a metic

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a resitdant foreigner

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what is a symposium

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a drinking party for men

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was prostituion legal or illegal in athens

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legal

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could both genders be prostities in athens

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yes

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who were brotherl owners taxed by in athens

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the state

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why were brothel owners taxed in athens

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because prostition was seen as buisiness and some were owned by state

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how do we know it was acceptable to go to brothels in Athens

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there are sources where athenian men discuss about visiting brothels

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was sex with prostitues deemed as adulkterious

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no

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could athenian husbands visit prostitutes

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yes or they would have long term relationshuoos with them

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did prostitutes have the same or diffrent rules to a kyria

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diffrent

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what were three things prostitutes could do in athens that kyrias couldn’t do

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own buissness, buy and sell land

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what kind of life did a sucessful prostate live

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a life full of freedom

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how many types of prostites were their in athens

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2

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what are the names of the types of prostites in athens

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hetaira and porne

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who were pornai owned byh

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brothel jeepers

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what is plural of porne

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pornai

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why would porne walk on the street by a brothel

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to advertise their buisnness

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what was a porne exclusively hired for

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sex

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what were the conditions of the brothel like in athens

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unhygenic

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was a hetairai or a porne a slave

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a porne

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were a hetairai or porne usually freedwomen/metidc
hetairai
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what skills would the hetairai show her client
singing, recite poetry, dancing, talking about art philopshy and politics
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what was the hetaira hired at the symposium for q
entertain guests
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a hetaira was well educated, why was this a good thing
it was uncommon for women in athens, this could inhance the experience her clients would have because they would not expect there intelligence
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who would teach a younger hetari their performing arts
a more experinced hetiara
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why did hetairs have to attend lectures to partice the art of speaking
to have knowledge of current aggairs
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who would teach heataira the art of public speaking
philosphers and men of athens
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what did a hetairai chose their clients based of on
the amount of money that theyy had and moved in elite circles because they were often very famous
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what does neira show us about prostituion in grece
how difficult it waas to live the life of a prostitute
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whwerrre was neira born
corinth
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who was she sold to as a child
nicrate, brothel kepper
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was neira a free women
no she was a slave hetairs and entertained men at symposia
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why was nicarate able to increase the price of her company
because neira was famouus
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was catulus's poems roman or greek
roman
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who wrote pro caelio
cicero
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what genre was pro caelio
a legal speech
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what l genre were catlus's poems
love poetry, elegy
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what was the signicance of pro calio
a famous speech given during a scandoulous court case
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what nickname was clodia given in catullus poetry
lesbia
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why was clodia given the nickname lesbia
for protection to both catullus and clodia, they would have been punished for adultery if they admitted the truth
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did people kno wthat clodia was lesbia
yes
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what was catullus poetry inspired by
his relationshipo with clodia, charting the ups and downs of their afira
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who do people compare lesbia to
a goddess and claim all other women are pale in comparison with her beauty
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what was catullus ruined by
his love of lesbia and broken when she rejects hum/ when she takes enough lover, shown as a gibbering reck
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why should catullus poems not be a record of fact
we cant be certqain that their relatiship followed the ups and downs of his poems
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what does pro caelio mean
in favour of caeilus
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what the speech pro calios aim
to attack clodias characgter, to defend caeiuls from charges that clodia had brought against him of poisoning her. cicero tries to discreit the argument by showing how scabndokus she really was
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how does cicero want us to see clodia
negartvelgy
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why does cicero want the audience to clodia negatively
so that they dilioke her so much that they have to judge tharr sghe lied in the case as well
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is it possible that ciceros entire speech was made up
yes, but if it was entirelyfalse, he would be caught out and his defence e of caeilus would fail
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what is cicero's speech evidence for
thr most extgreme version of improper behaviour
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what does cicero point out about clodia in his speech
dangerous, hyper sexed, he makes veiled refrences to relationships and affairs she had with multiple men at parties and banquets, he accuses her of using her money to buy young men
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what name does cicero call clodia
medea
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did cicero's plan to abuse clodias charcater work
yes, caeilys was not ofund guilty, clodia disappeared from public eye.
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what was the signifcance of catulus poems
selections from the love poetry of one of romes preemminet elegists and assumed her lover of clodia/lesbia
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