Martyrdom and Noble Death (English, Friedrich Avemarie | Jan Willem Van Henten)

Name: Martyrdom and Noble Death (English, Friedrich Avemarie | Jan Willem Van Henten)
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By Friedrich Avemarie | Jan Willem Van HentenRoutledge

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ISBN-13	9780415138901
ISBN-10	0415138906

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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 different view, with public self-sacrifice often being applauded. The Romans admired a heroic end in the battlefield or the arena, suicide in the tradi…

ISBN: 9780415138901