greek lived 4th century ancient greece brought trial accused marrying citizen illegally daughter citizen speech trial preserved ninth speech speech attributed worked speeches given speech provides details prostitutes antiquity consequently great deal information sex trade ancient speech source details biography concerns case brought son law apart brief introduction case given delivered entirety speech case revolves accusation married citizen attempting pass children citizens speech revolves life little importance substance accusations details speech hope accusations hide weakness case accuracy evidence given speech questioned known contain lies despite speech tells life accomplished extremely valuable historians source women lives classical greece reliable extant source prostitution classical world best sources women lives gender relations general period biography life probably born decade fourth century place birth unknown earliest event life know purchase young girl trained girls purchased calling daughters order increase price customers pay lived work prostitute started reached twice described having sex money came age possibly age implies time prominent guest regular customer girls order reward services arranged initiated mysteries funded journey time thirteen accompanied visited athens great time accompanying young paid thirty purchase high end prices men married agreed let buy freedom aid gifts loans customers deal agreed longer work prostitute left city athens helped buy freedom certainly living athens took feast given general celebrate victory games celebration says sexually assaulted guests slaves drunk asleep left household went taking clothing jewellery possessions belonging life continued work met offered act patron returned athens claims brought sons daughter athens modern commentators largely concluded sons question fact woman points sons probably legitimate son named father notes alleged sons man learnt athens attempted resisted claiming free woman right claim proceeded challenge court persuaded settle case arbitration instead decided free addition mistress extremely unusual decision society citizen women master despite unusual level freedom compelled split time men agreed input trial brought trial behalf father law accused representing citizen fact convicted maximum penalty faced sold slavery having property sold permitted speak trial probably present surviving record trial speech given outcome unknown records exist trial modern commentators noted weaknesses arguments outcome trial depended heavily parties involved persuade jury accept away certain suit failed
Neaira (hetaera)