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Ambitiosa mors : suicide and the self in Roman thought and literature /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Colección: | Studies in classics (Routledge (Firm)) ;
v. 10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.