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

2002 • 466 pages

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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