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<blockquote data-quote="Wayside" data-source="post: 650319" data-attributes="member: 8394">Not prostitute, properly, but a woman who accompanied men at Symposia.&nbsp; Sex was usually part of the deal, but it was very much a cultural event, not a guy going to a whore house.&nbsp; Remember that to the Greeks sex with women was mostly for reproduction and most men had sex with other men as well.&nbsp; In Plato's Symposion (Xenophon had one too) the debate on Love moves to the position that the greatest possible love is between two men (hence Platonic love..).&nbsp; Anyway, back to the drinking parties (hetairea is the plural I think, my Greek is bad): the men reclined on couches and drank wine (mixed with water) and philosophized, taking turns at speeches.&nbsp; Sort of like a formal debate.&nbsp; The serving women/men did other things like play musical instruments.&nbsp; It wasn't unknown for the participants to get roaring drunk and go %^&amp;% the town up either.If you do a simple search for Greek symposium/symposion on a search engine I'm sure it'll turn up some more detailed information.&nbsp; I'm pretty sure this isn't the kind of prostitute you were interested in though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wayside, post: 650319, member: 8394"] Not prostitute, properly, but a woman who accompanied men at Symposia. Sex was usually part of the deal, but it was very much a cultural event, not a guy going to a whore house. Remember that to the Greeks sex with women was mostly for reproduction and most men had sex with other men as well. In Plato's Symposion (Xenophon had one too) the debate on Love moves to the position that the greatest possible love is between two men (hence Platonic love..). Anyway, back to the drinking parties (hetairea is the plural I think, my Greek is bad): the men reclined on couches and drank wine (mixed with water) and philosophized, taking turns at speeches. Sort of like a formal debate. The serving women/men did other things like play musical instruments. It wasn't unknown for the participants to get roaring drunk and go %^&% the town up either. If you do a simple search for Greek symposium/symposion on a search engine I'm sure it'll turn up some more detailed information. I'm pretty sure this isn't the kind of prostitute you were interested in though. [/QUOTE]

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