Ambitiosa mors suicide and the self in Roman thought and literature /

• Main Author: Hill, Timothy, 1973-
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Routledge, 2004.
• Series: Studies in classics (Routledge (Firm)) ; v. 10.
• Subjects: Suicide > Rome.; Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

• 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.