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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958352003321

Autore

Hill Timothy <1973->

Titolo

Ambitiosa mors : suicide and the self in Roman thought and literature / / Timothy Hill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-135-87655-X

1-135-87656-8

0-203-60669-8

1-280-09884-8

0-203-49284-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Collana

Studies in classics ; ; v. 10

Disciplina

362.28/0937

Soggetti

Suicide - Rome

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-315) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Covering the writing of most major Latin authors between Lucretius and Lucan, this book argues that the significance of the 'noble death' in Roman culture cannot be understood if the phenomenon is viewed in the context of modern ideas of the self.