E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten
van Hooff From Autothanasia to Suicide
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-1-134-95378-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Self-killing in Classical Antiquity
E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-134-95378-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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.