The Sleep of Reason  Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome. 

 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  (c)2002. 
 - 1 online resource (468 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> Forgetting Foucault: acts, identities, and the history of sexuality /  Eros and ethical norms: philosophers respond to a cultural dilemma /  Erotic experience in the conjugal bed: good wives in Greek tragedy /  Aristophanic sex: the erotics of shamelessness /  Legend of the Sacred Band /  Plato, Zeno, and the object of love /  Aristotle on sex and love /  Two women of Samos /  First homosexuality /  Marriage and sexuality in republican Rome: a Roman conjugal love story /  Incomplete feminism of Musonius Rufus, Platonist, Stoic, and Roman /  Eros and Aphrodisia in the works of Dio Chrysostom /  Enacting Eros /  Erotic experience of looking: cultural conflict and the gaze in Empire culture /  Agents and victims: constructions of gender and desire in Greek love magic /  David M. Halperin --  Martha C. Nussbaum --  Maarit Kaimio --  Stephen Halliwell --  David /  Leitao --  A.W. Price --  Juha Sihvola --  Kenneth Dover --  David M. Halperin --  Eva Cantarella --  Martha C. Nussbaum --  J. Samuel Houser --  David Konstan --  Simon Goldhill --  Christopher A. Faraone.t︠s︡. 
<br/><br/> Sex is beyond reason, and yet we constantly reason about it. So, too, did the peoples of ancient Greece and Rome. But until recently there has been little discussion of their views on erotic experience and sexual ethics. The Sleep of Reason brings together an international group of philosophers, philologists, literary critics, and historians to consider two questions normally kept separate: how is erotic experience understood in classical texts of various kinds, and what ethical judgments and philosophical arguments are made about sex? From same-sex desire to conjugal love. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226923314 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sex customs--History--Greece--Congresses.<br/>Sex customs--Rome--Congresses.<br/>Sexual ethics--History--Greece--Congresses.<br/>Sexual ethics--Rome--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ13  / .S544 2002