From Autothanasia to Suicide: Self-Killing in Classical Antiquity
Anton van Hooff
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.
年:
1990
出版:
1
语言:
english
页:
328
ISBN 10:
0415040558
ISBN 13:
9780415040556
文件:
PDF, 3.19 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1990