Self-killing in Classical Antiquity
by
Anton J. L. van Hooff
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
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...