Selected Texts from Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian Antiquity
by
Friedrich Avemarie, Jan Willem van Henten
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
This volume explores the fascinating phenomenon of noble death through pagan, Jewish and Christian sources. Today's society is uncomfortable with death, and willingly submitting to a violent and ostentatious death in public is seen as particularly shocking and unusual. Yet classical sources give a...