From Autothanasia to Suicide
Self-killing in Classical Antiquity| By: | Anton J. L. van Hooff |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780415040556 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781134953783 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1990 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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 original idea of autothanasia, which lies at the root of the Christian abhorrence of suicide.