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Title The sleep of reason : erotic experience and sexual ethics in ancient Greece and Rome / edited by Martha C. Nussbaum and Juha Sihvola.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.70938 Sl25r 2002    ---  Available
Description viii, 457 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.ts.
Subject Sex customs -- Greece -- History.
Sex customs -- Rome.
Sexual ethics -- Greece -- History.
Sexual ethics -- Rome.
Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
Rome -- Civilization.
Added Author Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947-
Sihvola, Juha.
ISBN 0226609154 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226609146 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226609140 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226609157 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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