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The Sleep of Reason

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

Martha C. Nussbaum, Professor of Law and Ethics University of Chicago Law School Martha C Nussbaum, Juha Sihvola — 2002
Sex is beyond reason, and yet we constantly reason about it. So, too, did the peoples of ancient Greece and Rome. This work looks at how erotic experience is understood in classical texts, and what ethical and philosophical arguments are made about sex.
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