{"pk":54891,"title":"The Ultimate Romana Mors","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The suicide of M. Porcius Cato at the end of the Roman Republic shifted the Roman attitude towards self-killing. Suicides before Cato were intended to avoid imminent shame or defeat; however, after the example of Cato, suicide became an act to be imitated: it was a means of achieving glory. This paper treats the evolution of suicide, before and after Cato, and the impact of his suicide.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Romana Mors"},{"word":"Cato"},{"word":"Roman Republic"},{"word":"Roman Suicide"},{"word":"Lucretia"},{"word":"Roman Death"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4jt4b00s","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Mary-Evelyn","middle_name":"","last_name":"Farrior","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2014-02-07T14:15:10-06:00","date_accepted":"2014-02-07T14:15:10-06:00","date_published":"2013-12-31T18:00:00-06:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucbclassics_bujc/article/54891/galley/41413/download/"}]}