1st Edition
Ambitiosa Mors Suicide and the Self in Roman Thought and Literature
By T. D. Hill
Copyright 2004
348 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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Although the distinctive - and sometimes bizarre - means by which Roman aristocrats often chose to end their lives has attracted some scholarly attention in the past, most writers on the subject have been content to view this a s an irrational and inexplicable aspect of Roman culture. In this book, T.D. Hill traces the cultural logic which animated these suicides, describing the meaning and... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Cicero 3. Lucretius and Epicureanism 4. Eros , Self-Killing, and the Suicidal Lover in Republican Literature 5. Vergil 6. Ovid 7. Seneca 8. The Concept of the Political Suicide at Rome 9. Lucan 10. Petronius Epilogue: Roman Suicide after Nero
Biography
T. D. Hill
"it fully realizes its claim to deepen our understanding of ancient suicide by making self-killing practices of the Roman elite of the Early Principate part of the ancient category of good dying, euthanatein in the classical sense." -- Anton J.L. van Hooff, Nijmegen University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
