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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