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UNINA9910449962103321 |
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Autore |
Hill Timothy <1973-, > |
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Titolo |
Ambitiosa mors : suicide and the self in Roman thought and literature / / Timothy Hill |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-87655-X |
1-135-87656-8 |
0-203-60669-8 |
1-280-09884-8 |
0-203-49284-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (348 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in classics ; ; v. 10 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Suicide - Rome |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-315) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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