Zelfdoding in de Griekse roman : antieke zelfmoordideologie in vijf liefdesverhalen Universiteit Gent
This article intends to contribute to a research topic that has largely stayed under the radar of modern scholarship: the topos of desire for death in the ancient Greek novel. Attempted suicide and a strong wish to die are indeed ubiquitous in ancient narrative fiction and form an inherent part of the generic code of the Greek novel. By tracing the motives and means for self-killing in the five major Greek novels through a New Historicist ...