A HISTORY OF “PORNOGRAPHY” (the word)  

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"A HISTORY OF “PORNOGRAPHY” (the word)"[1] is text by PanopticonsRus first published on 29 June, 2015.

This extensively researched article confirms that the word πορνογράφον (“pornographers”) is a hapax legomenon in Ancient Greek:

"Conventionally, the word πορνογράφον (“pornographers”) dates to circa the late-second century of the common era in book 13 of Athenæus’ festive Deipnosophistae, a text brimming with descriptions of Mediterranean life dedicated very often to food (Perseus Digital Library, 2014 [1854]), which in book 13 means also women for sale. The word appears nowhere else if we would trust one of the most, if not the most, extensive online collection of classical texts available, the Perseus Digital Library (2014 [1854]), which itself has the authority of a “truth of the period” in Leps’ (1992) sense; Herz (2005) and McClure (2003) also confirm the origin of the word in nowhere but Athenæus."
  • Herz, M. (2005). PornoGRAPHIE: Eine Geschichte. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München.
    • "Die ubiquitär aufgestellte Behauptung, dass das Wort „Pornographie“ aus dem Altgriechischen käme, ist schlichtweg falsch, wovon man sich durch einen einzigen Blick ins Wörterbuch überzeugen kann."
  • McClure, L. (2003). Courtesans at Table: Gender and Greek Literary Culture in Athenaeus. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Leps, M.-C. (1992). Apprehending the criminal: The production of deviance in nineteenth-century discourse: Duke University Press.




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