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Martha Nussbaum, a law professor at the University of Chicago, who studied Classics and ancient philosophy at Harvard, recently gave a speech at the Harvard Book Store for her new book, “From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law.” Nussbaum sat down with FM to give the low-down on her new book, her views on same-sex rights (see Greek military strategy circa 500 B.C.), and the legality behind public...
...been interested in it for a long time. As someone who studies the Greeks, I’ve been writing about ancient Greek homosexuality for a long time. I’ve also been an actress and I’ve seen people who were able to be respected and accepted in the theater world who were not able to be accepted in the larger world, and that moved...
...very glad it’s on the way out, I think it’s absolutely ridiculous. Going back to the ancient Greeks, they actually constructed a famous fighting cohort with pairs of male lovers because they thought they would fight more boldly when they were vying to look good in the eyes of their lovers. The fighting forces have had gay and lesbian people for a very long time, and there’s something just very weird about the stance the Army has taken versus the stance that other countries with fine armies such as Canada, Britain...
...came to graduate school at Harvard in Classics and then I got very excited by what was going on in the ancient philosophy department. John Rawls was teaching. It was a great era, a really golden era in philosophy...
...background, the host asked, “In which ancient civilization would women expose their vaginas to ward off storms at sea? Follow up: in which ancient civilization were men brilliant liars...