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Ambitiosa Mors

Suicide and the Self in Roman Thought and Literature

By: T. D. Hill

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Paperback | 6 January 2011 | Edition Number 1

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348 Pages

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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.

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"it fully realizes its claim to deepen our understanding of ancient suicide by making self-killing practices of the Roman elite of the Early Principate part of the ancient category of good dying, euthanatein in the classical sense." -- Anton J.L. van Hooff, Nijmegen University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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