Ambitiosa Mors: Suicide and the Self in Roman Thought and Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415970976 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 348 str.

Timothy Hill

Opis

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Recenzje

"it fully realizes its claim to deepen our understanding of ancient suicide by making self-killing practices of the Roman elite of the Early Principate part of the ancient category of good dying, euthanatein in the classical sense." -- Anton J.L. van Hooff, Nijmegen University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Cicero 3. Lucretius and Epicureanism 4. Eros , Self-Killing, and the Suicidal Lover in Republican Literature 5. Vergil 6. Ovid 7. Seneca 8. The Concept of the Political Suicide at Rome 9. Lucan 10. Petronius Epilogue: Roman Suicide after Nero

O autorze

T. D. Hill