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#AAH2026 Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld (Pitt), “Archives of Prostitution in Classical Athens and Colonial Bridgetown” examines the archival record, primary a court speech attributed to Apollodorus, "Against Neaera". They demonstrate the degree to which sensationalism in the speech (concerning prostitution, purported enslaved background etc) hides the realities and personhood of Neaera's life and that of the people Neaera herself enslaved.