Allison Glazebrook (born 1966) is Professor of Greek Social and Cultural History, Gender and Sexuality, and Greek Oratory at

Brock University Brock University is a public research university in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. It is the only university in Canada in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, at the centre of Canada's Niagara Peninsula on the Niagara Escarpment. The university bears t ...

. She was President of the

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2018–20.

Education and early career

Glazebrook undertook her BA at the

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before completing her MA at Queen's University at Kingston and her PhD at the

University at Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. The university was founded in 18 ...

. Glazebrook taught at Stanford University before joining

in 2003.

Work

Glazebrook's work focuses on Greek social history, working in particular on sexuality and gender. She is well known for her work on prostitutes in Athens and commented in 2019 that:

"In part, my work is a reaction to scholarship that idealizes the ancient
hetaira Hetaira (plural hetairai (), also hetaera (plural hetaerae ), ( grc, ἑταίρα, "companion", pl. , la, hetaera, pl. ) was a type of prostitute in ancient Greece, who served as an artist, entertainer and conversationalist in addition to pro ...
, and attempts to look at how prostitution affected the lives of women across ancient Athenian society."

Glazebrook was the 2019 Visiting Speaker for the Western Tour (Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia) of the Classical Association of Canada. The Canadian Embassy in Athens invited Glazebrook to deliver three lectures on working women in ancient Athens in celebration of International Women's Day 2019. From 2018 to 2020 Glazebrook was the President of the

, and now serves as Past President (2020-2022).

Select publications

* (2021) ''Sexual Labor in the Athenian Courts,'' University of Texas Press * “Female Sexual Agency and an Enslaved “Olynthian”: Demosthenes 19.196-8” in ''Slavery and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity''. eds. D. Kamen and C.W. Marshall (2021) University of Wisconsin Press. 141-58. * ed. with Christina Vester (2017) ''Themes in Greek Society and Culture: An Introduction to Ancient Greece'' (New York: Oxford University Press) ; second edition (2022) * ed. with Barbara Tsakirgis (2016) ''Houses of Ill Repute: The Archaeology of Brothels, Houses, and Taverns in the Greek World'' (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press)
"Prostitutes, Plonk, and Play: Female Banqueters on a Red-figure Psykter from the Hermitage"
''Classical World'' Volume 105, Number 4, Summer 2012 pp. 497–524 * ed. with Madeleine M. Henry (2011) ''Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE to 200 CE'' (''Wisconsin studies in classics.'' Madison: University of Wisconsin Press) *
Prostituting Female Kin (Plut. Sol. 23.1-2)
''Dike'' 8 pp. 33–53

References

External links

Staff page for Allison Glazebrook
at

Allison Glazebrook
on WorldCat
Interview
with Allison Glazebrook about Classics and Women's Studies at

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