The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World

CHAPTER III. GREECE.

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Mythology.--Solonian Legislation.--Dicteria.--Pisistratidæ.-- Lycurgus and Sparta.--Laws on Prostitution.--Case of Phryne.--Classes of Prostitutes.--Pornikon Telos.--Dress.-- Hair of Prostitutes.--The Dicteriades of Athens.--Abode and Manners.--Appearance of Dicteria.--Laws regulating Dicteria.--Schools of Prostitution.--Loose Prostitutes.--Old Prostitutes.--Auletrides, or Flute-players.--Origin.--How hired.--Performances.--Anecdote of Arcadians.--Price of Flute-players.--Festival of Venus Periboa.--Venus Callipyge.--Lesbian Love.--Lamia.--Hetairæ.--Social Standing.--Venus and her Temples.--Charms of Hetairæ.-- Thargelia.--Aspasia.--Hipparchia.--Bacchis.--Guathena and Guathenion.--Lais.--Phryne.--Pythionice.--Glycera.-- Leontium.--Other Hetairæ.--Biographers of Prostitutes.-- Philtres. 43