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Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan’s Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece by Professor Debra Hamel Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-300-10763-3 / 0300107633 ISBN-13: 978-0-300-10763-0 / 9780300107630 Neaira grew up in a Corinthian brothel in the fourth century B.C., became a high-priced courtesan and a sex slave, then settled into a thirty-year relationship with Stephanos of Athens. But next she found herself in court, charged with transgressing Athens’s marriage laws. This book reconstructs the |