From Autothanasia to Suicide: Self-killing in Classical Antiquity

By 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415040558
• ISBN13: 9780415040556
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher