From Autothanasia to Suicide Self-Killing in Classical Antiquity

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.Van Hooff, Anton J. L. is the author of 'From Autothanasia to Suicide Self-Killing in Classical Antiquity' with ISBN 9780415040556 and ISBN 0415040558.