NEW!! INTELLIGENT FANTASY EROTICA!!! A college student learns about Philosophy and classical Greek legends, but her self-exploration truly begins when she meets the legend himself: The tall, sexy, bearded half-man/half-goat is Socrates' black sheep uncle. He powerfully demonstrates that all the legends are true: satyrs are randy, passionate lovers who are irresistible to human females. "Steamy, sexy, smart!" Alone in the deepest stacks of the old university library, first-year Philosophy student Callie has a pre-destined meeting with a centuries-old mythical being. According to legend, satyrs possess both keen intelligence and fierce sexual drive. Callie learns both of these stereotypes are true. Satyrs also understand sexual desire to be a natural right, if not a necessity. "Free love and often" seems to be their motto. Though Callie initially resists this, she comes to understand the wisdom of it as her mythical lover continually caresses, strokes, suckles, penetrates her body. Socratex is a fiercely gentle, passionate lover who keeps Callie with him in a mysterious cave beneath the library. During her days and nights with the satyr, Callie enjoys sexual satisfaction at levels she never dreamed were possible. When he leaves temporarily, Callie's now-overwhelming desire for her satyr is soon assuaged by Socratex' son, Kristofer. The wondrous, orgasmic connection they have as they merge their bodies in delightful ways leads to a profoundly deep relating between two connected in all possible ways. . . . . And then his satyr friends arrive for the summer! Callie's understanding of sexual passion expands exponentially as she discovers her life's purpose.

Counters the long-standing, solemn interpretation of Plato’s dialogues with one centered on the philosophical and pedagogical significance of Socrates as a comic figure. Plato was described as a boor and it was said that he never laughed out loud. Yet his dialogues abound with puns, jokes, and humor. Sonja Madeleine Tanner argues that in Plato’s dialogues Socrates plays a comical hero who draws heavily from the tradition of comedy in ancient Greece, but also reforms laughter to be applicable to all persons and truly shaming to none. Socrates introduces a form of self-reflective laughter that encourages, rather than stifles, philosophical inquiry. Laughter in the dialogues—both explicit and implied—suggests a view of human nature as incongruous with ourselves, simultaneously falling short of, and superseding, our own capacities. What emerges is a picture of human nature that bears a striking resemblance to Socrates’ own, laughable depiction, one inspired by Dionysus, but one that remains ultimately intractable. The book analyzes specific instances of laughter and the comical from the Apology, Laches, Charmides, Cratylus, Euthydemus, and the Symposium to support this, and to further elucidate the philosophical consequences of recognizing Plato’s laughter. Sonja Madeleine Tanner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and the author of In Praise of Plato’s Poetic Imagination.