The Sleep of Reason

Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome

By: Martha C. Nussbaum (Editor), Juha Sihvola (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 July 2002 | Edition Number 1

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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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Acknowledgments
Introduction
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
The Legend Of The Sacred Band
Plato, Zeno, And The Object Of Love
Two Women Of Samos
The First Homosexuality?
Marriage And Sexuality In Republican Rome: A Roman Conjugal Love Story
The Incomplete Feminism Of Musonius Rufus, Platonist, Stoic, And Roman
Eros And Aphrodisia In The Works Of Dio Chrysostom
Enacting Eros
The Erotic Experience Of Looking: Cultural Conflict And The Gaze In Empire Culture
Agents And Victims: Constructions Of Gender And Desire In Ancient Greek Love Magic
Appendix: Major Historical Figures Discussed
Contributors
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