In ancient Greece, Corinth was a city with a rep. It was so well known for prostitution, writes Debra Hamel, that the Greeks made its name into a verb, korinthiazein: to fornicate. It was there, in ...
Around 186 BCE, a former slave turned courtesan named Hispala Faecenia fell in love with a young upper-middle class Roman man named Publius Aebutius. Then she learned his mother and stepfather planned ...