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From Autothanasia to Suicide: Self-Killing in Classical Antiquity

From Autothanasia to Suicide: Self-Killing in Classical Antiquity

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Ancient History GeneralDeath & Dying

ISBN10: 0415513243
ISBN13: 9780415513241
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 4 2011
Pages: 332
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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