UID:
edocfu_9959227357302883
Format:
1 online resource (333 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-95378-X
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1-134-95379-8
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1-280-33115-1
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0-203-03293-4
Uniform Title:
Zelfdoding in de antieke wereld.
Content:
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.
Note:
Translation of: Zelfdoding in de antieke wereld.
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-51324-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-04055-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203032930
