No one is forced to wish to die: Suicide narratives in Augustan and Neronian literature.

dc.contributor.advisor	Hekster, O.J.
dc.contributor.advisor	Hunsucker, R.
dc.contributor.author	Verberne, J.J.
dc.date.issued	2017-11-06
dc.description.abstract	When the Tunesian street vendor Mohammed Bouazizi committed suicide by setting himself on fire in 2011, it sparked public protests throughout Northern Africa, in the media called the 'Arabic Spring'. In this Master thesis, the narrative of suicide as a means of political protest is being looked at from a historical perspective. During the Augustan and Neronian principates of the Roman Empire, suicide was widely presented in literature. The Roman historian Livy framed the mythical suicide of Lucretia as a protest move that triggered the fall of the monarchy, while both Seneca's and Lucan's suicides under the rule of Nero were supposedly modelled after the suicide of Cato, the hero of the Republic. Under the Julio-Claudians, when ‘suicide literature’ peaked, as well as in present day, it seems that the use of suicide narratives within a political framework often increases under dictatorial rule.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/5603
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.thesis.faculty	Faculteit der Letteren	en_US
dc.thesis.specialisation	Eternal Rome	en_US
dc.thesis.studyprogramme	Master Geschiedenis	en_US
dc.thesis.type	Master	en_US
dc.title	No one is forced to wish to die: Suicide narratives in Augustan and Neronian literature.	en_US

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