The transition from paganism to Christianity was not an easy one as explained by Rodoifo Lanciani and we know this through the many writings, tombstones, building, and documentations of events occurring at the time. However, there is one group that could document this transition better than any other, the prostitutes. The prostitutes themselves did not write extensive books about their sexuality or their occupations in detail through the transitions of religions. Documentation of their lewd behavior before the time of the church pertained to walls in brothels, graffiti at bathhouses and other such place. Most of the graffiti left behind state, “ Here I fucked many girls.” Some even pertain to money exchanged for acts executed, “Glyco licks
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Additionally, Rebecca Flemming writes how it was very much the norm for pagans to sell their own family members into the practice. Furthermore, while going through a Roman criminal law papyrus codex J.G. Keenan discovers a case in Alexandria, in which Diodemos, an Alexandrian Senate, killed a young woman for whatever reason, the papyrus does not list the reason. After Zephyrios jailed Diodemos , Theodora, the mother who sought reparations gave her statement, “For this reason I handed my daughter over to the procurer, that I myself might have food. Since therefore I have, by my daughter’s death been deprived of my support, I petition that I be given a moderate little woman’s portion for my sustenance” The statement explains that she sought reparations because she gave her daughter over to a procurer, otherwise known as a pimp in order to receive money for sustenance and with the death of her daughter her meal ticket had evaporated. In this case, there is no objection to the mother placing her daughter into prostitution or even disgust, though Keenan does explain that the descriptors of the old woman are the stereotypical ‘penniless old hag.’ In the end, execution was Diodemos fate for having shamed his seat in the Senate at Alexandria. So, even though he killed a prostitute, who was of a lower class, he still paid for it with his life and the mother, Theodora inherited 1/10 of the Senator’s estate. From this case it is determinable that in the eyes of the law a prostitute is a person. She or he is not a fraction of a person, but a whole person. Likewise, there was no belittling her character despite the fact that she was a prostitute, though in the case of the mother’s body the author compared it to that of a corpse showing that the blame for her daughter entering into prostitution and being killed was placed solely on her. Moreover, it is interesting to
Additionally, Rebecca Flemming writes how it was very much the norm for pagans to sell their own family members into the practice. Furthermore, while going through a Roman criminal law papyrus codex J.G. Keenan discovers a case in Alexandria, in which Diodemos, an Alexandrian Senate, killed a young woman for whatever reason, the papyrus does not list the reason. After Zephyrios jailed Diodemos , Theodora, the mother who sought reparations gave her statement, “For this reason I handed my daughter over to the procurer, that I myself might have food. Since therefore I have, by my daughter’s death been deprived of my support, I petition that I be given a moderate little woman’s portion for my sustenance” The statement explains that she sought reparations because she gave her daughter over to a procurer, otherwise known as a pimp in order to receive money for sustenance and with the death of her daughter her meal ticket had evaporated. In this case, there is no objection to the mother placing her daughter into prostitution or even disgust, though Keenan does explain that the descriptors of the old woman are the stereotypical ‘penniless old hag.’ In the end, execution was Diodemos fate for having shamed his seat in the Senate at Alexandria. So, even though he killed a prostitute, who was of a lower class, he still paid for it with his life and the mother, Theodora inherited 1/10 of the Senator’s estate. From this case it is determinable that in the eyes of the law a prostitute is a person. She or he is not a fraction of a person, but a whole person. Likewise, there was no belittling her character despite the fact that she was a prostitute, though in the case of the mother’s body the author compared it to that of a corpse showing that the blame for her daughter entering into prostitution and being killed was placed solely on her. Moreover, it is interesting to