From autothanasia to suicide : self-killing in classical antiquity / Anton J.L. van Hooff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hooff, Anton J. L. van, 1943-

Standardized Title:

Zelfdoding in de antieke wereld. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suicide--Greece--History.

Suicide.

Suicide--Rome--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Translation of: Zelfdoding in de antieke wereld.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-288) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-95378-X

1-134-95379-8

1-280-33115-1

0-203-03293-4

9780203032930

OCLC:

437079669