1st Edition
From Autothanasia to Suicide Self-killing in Classical Antiquity
By Anton J. L. van Hooff
Copyright 1990
332 Pages
by
Routledge
332 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 the various media and traces the development of the concept of self-murder, as opposed to the... Read more
Part I Phenomena of Self-Killing 1. CASUS MORIENDI 2. MODI MORIENDI 3. CAUSAE MORIENDI Part II Experience of self-killing 4. SUICIDE IN WORDS AND TEXTS 5. EXPERTS, LAW-GIVERS AND ARTISTS Part III Reflections on self-killing 6. PHILOSOPHERS AND THEOLOGIANS
Biography
Anton J. L. van Hooff
`This bold attempt to set out all the attitudes to suicide attested in classical antiquity is an important contribution to the social history of the western world' - Classical Review Vol XLII
