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

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

by Martha Nussbaum (Author)

Synopsis

Sex is beyond reason, and yet we constantly reason about it. So, too, did the peoples of Ancient Greece and Rome.This work considers how erotic experience is understood in classical texts, and what ethical and philosophical arguments are made about sex?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 457
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 15 Jul 2002

ISBN 10: 0226609154
ISBN 13: 9780226609157