ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|132 pages
Phenomena Of Self-Killing
part II|46 pages
Experience of Self-Killing
chapter 4|22 pages
Suicide in Words and Texts
chapter 5|22 pages
Experts, Law-Givers and Artists
part III|19 pages
Reflections on Self-Killing