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

- Contents

INTRODUCTION
1.FORGETTING FOUCAULT: ACTS, IDENTITIES,
AND THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY
2.EROS AND ETHICAL NORMS:
PHILOSOPHERS RESPOND TO A CULTURAL DILEMMA
3.EROTIC EXPERIENCE IN THE CONJUGAL BED:
GOOD WIVES IN GREEK TRAGEDY
4.ARISTOPHANIC SEX: THE EROTICS OF SHAMELESSNESS
5.THE LEGEND OF THE SACRED BAND
6.PLATO, ZENO, AND THE OBJECT OF LOVE
7.TWO WOMEN OF SAMOS
8.THE FIRST HOMOSEXUALITY?
9.MARRIAGE AND SEXUALITY IN REPUBLICAN ROME:
A ROMAN CONJUGAL LOVE STORY
10.THE INCOMPLETE FEMINISM OF MUSONIUS RUFUS,
PLATONIST, STOIC, AND ROMAN
11.EROS AND APHRODISIA IN THE WORKS OF
DIO CHRYSOSTOM
12.ENACTING EROS
13.THE EROTIC EXPERIENCE OF LOOKING: CULTURAL CONFLICT
AND THE GAZE IN EMPIRE CULTURE
14.AGENTS AND VICTIMS: CONSTRUCTIONS OF GENDER AND
DESIRE IN ANCIENT GREEK LOVE MAGIC
APPENDIX: MAJOR HISTORICAL FIGURES DISCUSSED
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEXES
History: Ancient and Classical History
Literature and Literary Criticism: Classical Languages
Philosophy: Ethics | History and Classic Works
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