Anton J. L. van Hooff

Broschiertes Buch

From Autothanasia to Suicide

Self-killing in Classical Antiquity

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Anton J. L. van Hooff

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780415513241
• ISBN-10: 0415513243
• Artikelnr.: 51408571

Rezensionen

`This bold attempt to set out all the attitudes to suicide attested in classical antiquity is an important contribution to the social history of the western world' - Classical Review Vol XLII

`This bold attempt to set out all the attitudes to suicide attested in classical antiquity is an important contribution to the social history of the western world' - Classical Review Vol XLII