Sex and the second-best city : sex and society in the Laws of Plato
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Sex and the second-best city : sex and society in the Laws of Plato
(Studies in classics / edited by Dirk Obbink, Andrew Dyck)
Routledge, 2005
- : hardcover
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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Note
Bibliography: p. 295-308
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Sex and the Second-Best City deals with the topics of sex and society in the Laws of Plato with recourse to historical context and modern critical theory. It examines reconstructions of ancient "sexuality" with a view to increased clarification. The text of the Laws is considered, along with many of its literary qualities, its influences and the utopian plan that it proposes.
Table of Contents
Abbreviations Currency Conversion Preface 1. Modern Theory, Ancient 'Sexuality' 2. The Laws in Context 3. Educating Magnesia: Developmental Psychology and Sex Role Stereotyping. 4. ANAPEIA: A Special Definition for Magnesia 5. Sex, the Myth of the Family and Plato's Stepchildren 6. A Brave New Femininity 7. Magnesian Moral Hygiene: Same-Sex Relations, Pleasure and Madness 8. General Conclusions Bibliography
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