The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome
Nussbaum, Martha C. [Editor]; Sihvola, Juha [Editor];
Language: English
Published by University of Chicago Press, 2002
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- Title
- The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome
- Author
- Nussbaum, Martha C. [Editor]; Sihvola, Juha [Editor];
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0226609154
- ISBN 13
- 9780226609157
- Item weight
- 22 ounces
- Dimensions
- 9x6x1
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, and from Plato and Aristotle to the Roman Stoic Musonius Rufus, the contributors demonstrate the complexity and diversity of classical sexuality. They also show that the ethics of eros, in both Greece and Rome, shared a number of commonalities: a focus not only on self-mastery, but also on reciprocity; a concern among men not just for penetration and display of their power, but also for being gentle and kind, and for being loved for themselves; and that women and even younger men felt not only gratitude and acceptance, but also joy and sexual desire.
Contributors:
* Eva Cantarella
* Kenneth Dover
* Chris Faraone
* Simon Goldhill
* Stephen Halliwell
* David M. Halperin
* J. Samuel Houser
* Maarit Kaimio
* David Konstan
* David Leitao
* Martha C. Nussbaum
* A. W. Price
* Juha Sihvola
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