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Headword: *)astua/nassa
Adler number: alpha,4261
Translated headword: Astyanassa
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Handmaid of Menelaus' wife Helen;[1] [the one] who first invented the sexual positions and wrote about forms of sexual intercourse; Philainis and Elephantine later imitated her, women who acted out such vulgarities in dances.[2]
Greek Original:
*)astua/nassa, *(ele/nhs th=s *menela/ou qera/paina: h(/tis prw/th ta\s e)n th=| sunousi/a| katakli/seis eu(=re kai\ e)/graye peri\ sxhma/twn sunousiastikw=n: h(\n u(/steron parezh/lwsan *filaini\s kai\ *)elefanti/nh, ai( ta\ toiau=ta e)corxhsa/menai a)selgh/mata.
Notes:
[1] Unattested outside lexicography.
[2] For Philainis as herself an alleged author of a sex manual see delta 472, and generally the evidence and bibliography collected in F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, ii (Oxford 1967) 356-7.
Keywords: biography; epic; ethics; gender and sexuality; meter and music; mythology; women
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 11 May 1999@11:03:26.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 19 March 2001@07:48:14.
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 26 August 2002@08:11:28.
David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 29 August 2003@09:07:43.
David Whitehead (another keyword; typo (mine)) on 29 November 2006@08:42:33.
David Whitehead on 26 April 2012@04:36:11.
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