How to Die
An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
1st Edition
Published on 27. February 2018
256 pages
978-1-4008-8948-8 (ISBN)
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02/2018
Princeton University Press
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James S. Romm is the author of Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero and Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire (both Knopf). He has written essays and reviews for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books, and the New Yorker website, among other publications. He is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College and lives in Barrytown, New York.
Content
Introduction ix
How to Die xxi
I Prepare Yourself 1
II Have No Fear 12
III Have No Regrets 34
IV Set Yourself Free 59
V Become a Part of the Whole 92
Epilogue: Practice What You Preach 117
Latin Texts 123
Notes 217
