User:The Anome/Draft:Prostitution in ancient Rome

This is adapted from the Notes in W. C. Firebaugh's translation of the Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, which is in the public domain. See http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5225/5225.txt for the original Project Gutenberg file including full attributions.

This text is in dire need of modernization; many of its arguments and conclusions have also probably long since been made obsolete by modern scholarship, but it's a place to start. -- The Anome (talk) 13:34, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

To do:
 * finish fixing the references
 * refactor or remove list material

Questions:
 * are the "chap." references actually references within the Satyricon itself?

Further reading for material to improve this article:
 * Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome by Thomas A. J. McGinn ISBN 9780195161328, looks like a good reference

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