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[German version] (πορνεῖον; porneîon, οἴκημα; oíkēma, χαμαιτυπεῖον; chamaitypeîon, lupanar, lupanarium, fornix). Archaeological evidence of brothels is rare, but brothels are mentioned quite frequently in Greek and Latin literature. Prostitution and prostitutes are moreover the subject of many pictorial representations, on red-figured vases in particular. Solon is said to have been the first to construct a brothel (Ath. 13,569d). Brothels were probably widespread in Greece well before the Classical Period…

I. Society [German version] A. Greece It was a characteristic of Greek society that the spheres of the two genders were strictly separated in a way that has little in common with the modern distinction between a private, domestic sphere and a public, political one. Neither should the house (  oíkos ) be seen as a purely private sphere, nor can gender roles (GR) be limited to one area only. There were divisions both within the house and within the public sphere of ancient cities. The ancient discourse on GR was characterized both by complimentariness and by demarcation. Wagner-Hasel, Beate (D…