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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
1990.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798497406719 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: Zelfdoding in de antieke wereld. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (333 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-288) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781134953783 9781134953790 9781280331152 9780203032930 |
