{"id":1490,"date":"2009-04-25T20:24:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T20:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2009-04-25T20:24:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T20:24:05","slug":"did-sacred-prostitution-exist-in-the-classical-world-or-ancient-near-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2009\/04\/25\/did-sacred-prostitution-exist-in-the-classical-world-or-ancient-near-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Did sacred prostitution exist in the classical world, or ancient near-east?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve no real idea, I have to say.\u00a0 I’d always vaguely assumed so, and apparently scholars have always thought so.\u00a0 But today I saw a BMCR review here<\/a> by someone who thinks not, reviewing a book by an ally.\u00a0 I’m a little wary of the ideology on display; the review makes it look a\u00a0 bit agenda-driven.<\/p>\n

But I wonder what the facts are. My instinctive reaction is to ask to see the evidence from primary sources.\u00a0 The review tells me that Strabo says something or other about it at Corinth, in book 12.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfortunately the Lacus Curtius translation<\/a> hasn’t got that far yet.\u00a0 What we need is a data set online.\u00a0 Then we can assess the matter for ourselves.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Roman History Books blog<\/a> for this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve no real idea, I have to say.\u00a0 I’d always vaguely assumed so, and apparently scholars have always thought so.\u00a0 But today I saw a BMCR review here by someone who thinks not, reviewing a book by an ally.\u00a0 I’m a little wary of the ideology on display; the review makes it look a\u00a0 bit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[1287,1464],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-world","tag-patristics","tag-sacred-prostitution"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}