Illustration
A scene from the interior bowl of a red-figure kylix or stemmed drinking cup (490-480 BCE) depicting a symposiast and hetairai - high-class prostitute. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
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Original image by Sebastià Giralt. Uploaded by Mark Cartwright, published on 26 January 2013 under the following license: Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms.
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