{"id":1050,"date":"2008-12-28T04:01:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T09:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2018-08-10T18:27:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T22:27:07","slug":"17077-%c2%a0%c2%a0-debra-hamel-trying-neaira-the-true-story-of-a-courtesan%e2%80%99s-scandalous-life-in-ancient-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"17077.&nbsp;(Debra Hamel) Trying Neaira, the True Story of a Courtesan\u2019s Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Using the frag\u00admen\u00adtary evi\u00addence of a tri\u00adal which took place in Athens c.340 B.C., Debra Hamel cre\u00adates a vivid pic\u00adture of the place of women in Clas\u00adsi\u00adcal Greek soci\u00adety. This book is entire\u00adly free of post-mod\u00adern plat\u00adi\u00adtudes and jar\u00adgon, and con\u00adcen\u00adtrates on help\u00ading the read\u00ader visu\u00adal\u00adize and empathize with the past.&nbsp;Along the way, many col\u00adlat\u00ader\u00adal issues, such as just how ancient lit\u00adi\u00adga\u00adtion worked in real life, and what sex\u00adu\u00adal laws and cus\u00adtoms meant for real peo\u00adple, are illu\u00admi\u00adnat\u00aded.&nbsp;I would strong\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend this book to any\u00adone who wants to dig deep\u00ader than the stan\u00addard bat\u00adtles-and-big-shots approach to Greek his\u00adto\u00adry. This was a delight\u00adful Christ\u00admas gift from my friend Ruta Muhlberger.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the frag\u00admen\u00adtary evi\u00addence of a tri\u00adal which took place in Athens c.340 B.C., Debra Hamel cre\u00adates a vivid pic\u00adture of the place of women in Clas\u00adsi\u00adcal Greek soci\u00adety. This book is entire\u00adly free of post-mod\u00ad\u00adern plat\u00adi\u00adtudes and jar\u00adgon,&nbsp;and&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1050\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bs-reading-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8176,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/8176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}