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Liaisons dangereuses: Aphrodite and the hetaira - (V.) Pirenne-Delforge L'Aphrodite grecque. Contribution à l'étude de ses cultes et de sa personnalité dans le panthéon archaïque et classique (Kernos Suppl. 4). Centre international de l'Étude de la Religion Grecque Antique, Athens and Liège, 1994. Pp. xiii + 527 (12 figures). €45. 07763824 (pbk). - (L.K.) McClure Courtesans at Table. Gender and Literary Culture in Athenaeus. New York and London: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xii + 242. £60 (hbk); £17.99 (pbk). 0415939461 (hbk); 041593947X (pbk). - (D.) Hamel Trying Neaira. The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2003. Pp. xxiii + 200. £16.95. 0300094310 (hbk).

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(V.) Pirenne-Delforge L'Aphrodite grecque. Contribution à l'étude de ses cultes et de sa personnalité dans le panthéon archaïque et classique (Kernos Suppl. 4). Centre international de l'Étude de la Religion Grecque Antique, Athens and Liège, 1994. Pp. xiii + 527 (12 figures). €45. 07763824 (pbk).
(L.K.) McClure Courtesans at Table. Gender and Literary Culture in Athenaeus. New York and London: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xii + 242. £60 (hbk); £17.99 (pbk). 0415939461 (hbk); 041593947X (pbk).
(D.) Hamel Trying Neaira. The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2003. Pp. xxiii + 200. £16.95. 0300094310 (hbk).

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James Davidson
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 124 , November 2004 , pp. 169 - 173
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1 E.g. Davidson, J., Courtesans and Fishcakes (London 1997).Google Scholar The review is e museis nostris by the editors of CR 50 (2000) 619: ‘invaluable tool for further study’.

2 P-D. was writing before the discovery at Bodrum of the inscription celebrating Hermaphroditos as founder of marriage bonds (cf. Isager, S., ZPE 123 (1998) 1–23Google Scholar; Lloyd-Jones, H., ZPE 124 (1999) 1–14, etc.)Google Scholar, but her analysis of the bi-god needs little modification – ‘l'image divine de la réunion synthétique du féminin et du masculin’ (461) – although one misses a reference to Aileen Ajootian's 1990 article on him-‘n’-her in LJMC, which is not in disagreement.

3 Cf. Faustoferri, Amalia, in another good commentary on Pausanias, II trono di Amyklai e Sparta. Bathykles al servizio del potere (Naples 1996) 201Google Scholar: ‘l'immagine centrale…dell'intera sequenza decorativa realizzata sul lato esterno del Trono: le nozze di Kadmos e Harmonia'; cf. 121: ‘il coronamento dell'armonia sociale’.

4 Schmitz, Philip C., ‘The Phoenician text from the Etruscan Sanctuary at Pyrgi’, JAOS 115 (1995) 571Google Scholar: ‘Of what significance are connections between a temple in Etruria and the Phoenician settlements on Cyprus?’

5 She might have found some mitigation in my article on Athenaeus, ‘Pleasure and pedantry in Athenaeus’, in Wilkins, J. and Braund, D. (eds), Athenaeus and his World (Exeter, 2000) 292–303, 570–71.Google Scholar

6 Ian Worthington, BMCR 2003.07.42.

7 Cf. Froma Zeitlin's discussion, ‘Eros’, in Settis, S. (ed.), Noi e i Greci (Turin 1996) 369–430, esp. 402–3.Google Scholar

8 Glinister, F., ‘The Rapino Bronze, the Touta Marouca, and sacred prostitution in Early Central Italy’, in Cooley, A. (ed.), The Epigraphic Landscape of Roman Italy [= BICS Suppl. 73 (2000)] 19–38, esp. 27–31.Google Scholar

9 She omits the interesting discussion of Parker, R., Athenian Religion: A History (Oxford 1996) 162–3Google Scholar, cf. 214–17, on Phryne's impiety trial and its parallels.