From Autothanasia to Suicide: Self-killing in Classical Antiquity Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

From Autothanasia to Suicide: Self-killing in Classical Antiquity Book

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.Read More

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  • 0415040558
  • 9780415040556
  • Anton J. L. van Hooff
  • 6 December 1990
  • Routledge
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 328
  • 1
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