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Abstract
Paul McKechnie (Auckland), Beau monde and Demi-monde in Alexandria, 323-116 BC. In this article debate is continued about hetaerae in Hellenistic Alexandria, engaging with points made by Alan Cameron in Callimachus and his Critics (1995). Evidence from the works of Asclepiades, Posidippus and Hedylus is examined. It is proposed that love epigrams should be viewed in the context of how men behaved at a symposium, and that they reflect interaction between men of an educated, literary-minded upper class and a wide range of women who (whether hetaerae or not) had the chance to indulge in love affairs. The life of this trend-setting minority is reflected also in Sirach 32, where the sage instructs Jewish readers on how to behave at a symposium ; Sirach 9, concomitantly, commends morally correct behaviour towards women, in a social context where temptation can be expected.
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