From Autothanasia to Suicide: Self-killing in Classical Antiquity
, by van Hooff,Anton J. L.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780415513241 | 0415513243
- Cover: Nonspecific Binding
- Copyright: 11/1/2011
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.