Ambitiosa mors [electronic resource] : suicide and the self in Roman thought and literature / Timothy Hill.

By: Hill, Timothy, 1973-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in classics (Routledge (Firm)) ; v. 10.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2004Description: xi, 335 pSubject(s): Suicide -- RomeGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.28/0937 LOC classification: HV6543 | .H55 2004Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction -- Cicero -- Lucretius and epicureanism -- Eros, self-killing, and the suicidal lover in republican literature -- Vergil -- Ovid -- Seneca -- The concept of political suicide at Rome -- Lucan -- Petronius -- Epilogue: Roman suicide after Nero.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-315) and index.

Introduction -- Cicero -- Lucretius and epicureanism -- Eros, self-killing, and the suicidal lover in republican literature -- Vergil -- Ovid -- Seneca -- The concept of political suicide at Rome -- Lucan -- Petronius -- Epilogue: Roman suicide after Nero.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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