TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nussbaum,Martha Craven
AU  - Sihvola,Juha
TI  - The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome
SN  - 9780226923314
AV  - HQ13 .S544 2002
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Sex customs
KW  - Greece
KW  - History
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Rome
KW  - Sexual ethics
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Forgetting Foucault: acts, identities, and the history of sexuality; David M. Halperin --; Eros and ethical norms: philosophers respond to a cultural dilemma; Martha C. Nussbaum --; Erotic experience in the conjugal bed: good wives in Greek tragedy; Maarit Kaimio --; Aristophanic sex: the erotics of shamelessness; Stephen Halliwell --; Legend of the Sacred Band; David; Leitao --; Plato, Zeno, and the object of love; A.W. Price --; Aristotle on sex and love; Juha Sihvola --; Two women of Samos; Kenneth Dover --; First homosexuality; David M. Halperin --; Marriage and sexuality in republican Rome: a Roman conjugal love story; Eva Cantarella --; Incomplete feminism of Musonius Rufus, Platonist, Stoic, and Roman; Martha C. Nussbaum --; Eros and Aphrodisia in the works of Dio Chrysostom; J. Samuel Houser --; Enacting Eros; David Konstan --; Erotic experience of looking: cultural conflict and the gaze in Empire culture; Simon Goldhill --; Agents and victims: constructions of gender and desire in Greek love magic; Christopher A. Faraone.t︠s︡; 2; b
N2  - 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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