`This bold attempt to set out all the attitudes to suicide attested in classical antiquity is an important contribution to the social history of the western world' - Classical Review Vol XLII

• Part I Phenomena of Self-Killing 1. CASUS MORIENDI 2. MODI MORIENDI 3. CAUSAE MORIENDI Part II Experience of self-killing 4. SUICIDE IN WORDS AND TEXTS 5. EXPERTS, LAW-GIVERS AND ARTISTS Part III Reflections on self-killing 6. PHILOSOPHERS AND THEOLOGIANS

`This bold attempt to set out all the attitudes to suicide attested in classical antiquity is an important contribution to the social history of the western world' - Classical Review Vol XLII

• Part I Phenomena of Self-Killing 1. CASUS MORIENDI 2. MODI MORIENDI 3. CAUSAE MORIENDI Part II Experience of self-killing 4. SUICIDE IN WORDS AND TEXTS 5. EXPERTS, LAW-GIVERS AND ARTISTS Part III Reflections on self-killing 6. PHILOSOPHERS AND THEOLOGIANS

`This bold attempt to set out all the attitudes to suicide attested in classical antiquity is an important contribution to the social history of the western world' - Classical Review Vol XLII

• Part I Phenomena of Self-Killing 1. CASUS MORIENDI 2. MODI MORIENDI 3. CAUSAE MORIENDI Part II Experience of self-killing 4. SUICIDE IN WORDS AND TEXTS 5. EXPERTS, LAW-GIVERS AND ARTISTS Part III Reflections on self-killing 6. PHILOSOPHERS AND THEOLOGIANS