From Autothanasia to Suicide: Self-killing in Classical Antiquity

By Anton J.L. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415513243
• ISBN13: 9780415513241
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"