From autothanasia to suicide : self-killing in classical antiquity

From autothanasia to suicide self-killing in classical antiquity

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hooff, Anton J. L. van, 1943- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge 1990.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Suicide > Greece > History.
Suicide > Rome > History.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798497406719
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  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of figures; Prologue; Less than an animal, mightier than a god; Phenomena of Self-Killing; CASUS MORIENDI; MODI MORIENDI; CAUSAE MORIENDI; Experience of self-killing; SUICIDE IN WORDS AND TEXTS; EXPERTS, LAW-GIVERS AND ARTISTS; Reflections on self-killing; PHILOSOPHERS AND THEOLOGIANS; 960 cases of self-killing; Profile of ancient self-killing; Suicidal vocabulary of Greek and Latin; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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