UID:
edocfu_9959233906002883
Format:
1 online resource (348 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-135-87655-X
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1-135-87656-8
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0-203-60669-8
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1-280-09884-8
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0-203-49284-6
Series Statement:
Studies in classics ; v. 10
Content:
Covering the writing of most major Latin authors between Lucretius and Lucan, this book argues that the significance of the 'noble death' in Roman culture cannot be understood if the phenomenon is viewed in the context of modern ideas of the self.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction -- Cicero -- Lucretius and epicureanism -- Eros, self-killing, and the suicidal lover in republican literature -- Vergil -- Ovid -- Seneca -- The concept of political suicide at Rome -- Lucan -- Petronius -- Epilogue: Roman suicide after Nero.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-89118-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-97097-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203492840
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