Ambitiosa Mors
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Ambitiosa Mors
Amor Mortis
ancient selfhood
arbitrium
aristocratic
Aristocratic Community
Aristocratic Persona
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Cato Uticensis
Cato's Suicide
Cato’s Suicide
classical ethics
community
cultural logic of Roman suicide
De Bello Civili
De Finibus
Dido's Suicide
Dido’s Suicide
Epicurean thought
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Ethical Aesthetic
Julio Claudian Principate
Latin literature analysis
Latin Love Poetry
liberum
Liberum Mortis Arbitrium
Lucan's Epic
Lucan’s Epic
moral
Moral Witness
mortis
Ovid's Dido
Ovid’s Dido
Past Tenses
persona
political martyrdom
publica
res
Roman philosophy
Roman Suicide
Seneca's Death
Seneca's Phaedra
Seneca’s Death
Seneca’s Phaedra
Style Spirale
Thrasea Paetus
Van Hooff
Vergil's Dido
Vergil’s Dido
witness
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415970976
- Weight: 800g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Aug 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Although the distinctive - and sometimes bizarre - means by which Roman aristocrats often chose to end their lives has attracted some scholarly attention in the past, most writers on the subject have been content to view this a s an irrational and inexplicable aspect of Roman culture. In this book, T.D. Hill traces the cultural logic which animated these suicides, describing the meaning and significance of such deaths in their original cultural context. 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 nature of the self.
