Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-315) and index.
Contents
Cicero -- Lucretius and epicureanism -- Eros, self-killing, and the suicidal lover in republican literature -- Vergil -- Ovid -- Seneca -- The concept of the political suicide at Rome -- Lucan -- Petronius -- Epilogue: Roman suicide after Nero.
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