The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity

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Stephanie Lynn Budin

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Stephanie Budin demonstrates that sacred prostitution, the sale of a person's body for sex in which some or all of the money earned was devoted to a deity or a temple, did not exist in the ancient world. Reconsidering the evidence from the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman texts, and the early Christian authors, Budin shows that the majority of sources that have traditionally been understood as pertaining to sacred prostitution actually have nothing to do with this institution. The few texts that are usually invoked on this subject are, moreover, terribly misunderstood. Contrary to many current hypotheses, the creation of the myth of sacred prostitution has nothing to do with notions of accusation or the construction of a decadent, Oriental 'Other'. Instead, the myth has come into being as a result of more than 2,000 years of misinterpretations, false assumptions, and faulty methodology.

Author Biography:

Stephanie Budin received her PhD in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in Greece and the Ancient Near East. She studied at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens as a Pennfield Fellow and the following year she continued her studies both there and at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem as the Samuel H. Kress Joint Athens-Jerusalem Fellow. She has delivered papers in Athens, Nicosia, Jerusalem, London, Dublin, Stockholm, Oldenburg, and in various cities throughout the United States.

Release date NZ

January 14th, 2008

Author

Stephanie Lynn Budin

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

384

Dimensions

155x230x26

ISBN-13

9780521880909

Product ID

3534981

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