title: The Three Roles of Neaira
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metadata.value: Kudryavtseva, Tatyana V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-04-16T10:01:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-04-16T10:01:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Kudryavtseva T. V. The Three Roles of Neaira. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 1, рp. 163–178.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.110
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/27906
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article examines one of the most striking speeches of the Demosthenes corps, which was
  often quoted by ancient authors: LIX “Against Neaira,” conventionally believed to be authored
  by Apollodorus. Although this speech, as well as the trial where it was presented, has repeatedly
  become the subject of historiographic commentary and discussion, not a single specialized
  work has been devoted to it in Russian. The trial against Neaira and her partner Stephanos
  is of interest not only because it is the only surviving case on charges of illegal acquisition of
  Athenian citizenship, and the plaintiff ’s speech allows us to reconstruct a number of important
  aspects of legal proceedings in Athens (litigants’ behavior, arguments, witnesses, evidence,
  etc.). The prosecutor also reveals certain unappealing aspects of the daily life of Greek society
  in terms of attitudes to women, prostitution and pedophilia. The speaker divides women into
  three categories: wife, concubine (παλλακή) and hetaera. Neaira successfully handled the roles
  of hetaera and concubine. It is unknown whether Apollodorus had managed to impose on her
  the role of a legal wife — the one that would put Neaira at risk of being sold into slavery. Despite
  the weakness of the prosecution’s arguments and evidence, Apollodorus, who skillfully
  used the concept of polis rules, family identity and religious values, as well as dikastes’ prejudices,
  could have become the winner. However, presenting sufficiently convincing counter-
  arguments and testimonies may not have been difficult for Stephanos, although, perhaps,
  an appeal to the mercy and pity of the judges would have been a more efficient way to achieve
  his goal.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The paper was created within the project financed by RFFI: No. 19-09-00183 (Judicial process in antiquity:
  legal, political, social and personal aspects).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 66; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ancient Greece
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Athens
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: trial
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Apollodorus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Neaira
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Stephanos
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: marriage
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: concubine
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hetaera
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Three Roles of Neaira
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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