«But Now they Want Food and Money»: The Image of the Male Prostitute in the Attic Vase Painting of the 5th Century B.C.E

Authors

  • David Vendrell Cabanillas Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/etfii.32.2019.24306

Keywords:

Male prostitution, athenian pederasty, attic vase painting, masculinit, iconography

Abstract

This article is about the image of the male prostitute in attic vase painting of the 5th century B.C.E. The key iconographic motif and invariably presented together with these individuals, who offer ephemeral beauty and pleasure, is the sack of money or ballantia, whose economic and sexual significance is almost certain. Thus, an iconographic analysis of a set of images is carried out on the basis of a novel multidisciplinary hypothesis in which prevails the sociopolitical context of classical Athens and the transformation suffered by the aristocratic institution of the paiderasteia in that period due to the generalization of the full citizenship made by Ephialtes and Pericles.

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Published

2019-11-07

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Vendrell Cabanillas, D. (2019). «But Now they Want Food and Money»: The Image of the Male Prostitute in the Attic Vase Painting of the 5th Century B.C.E. Espacio Tiempo Y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, (32), 41–74. https://doi.org/10.5944/etfii.32.2019.24306

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