From autothanasia to suicide self-killing in classical antiquity

Using almost a thousand case studies, both real and fictional, Dr van Hooff provides us with a unique and engaging insight into self-killing in the Graeco-Roman world.The author analyses the methods and motives which lie behind self-killing relating them to ancient popular morality as it appears in...

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Autor principal: Hooff, Anton J. L. van, 1943- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge 1990.
Edición:1st ed
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Sumario:Using almost a thousand case studies, both real and fictional, Dr van Hooff provides us with a unique and engaging insight into self-killing in the Graeco-Roman world.The author analyses the methods and motives which lie behind self-killing relating them to ancient popular morality as it appears in the various media and traces the development of the concept of self-murder, as opposed to the original idea of autothanasia, which lies at the root of the Christian abhorrence of suicide.
Notas:Translation of: Zelfdoding in de antieke wereld.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (333 p.)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-288) and index.
ISBN:9781134953783
9781134953790
9781280331152
9780203032930