TY - JOUR AB - <p>A close reading of two important scenes from books 9 and 10 of Vergil's<br>Aeneid, reveals that the deaths of Euryalus and, more markedly,<br>Nisus can be regarded as altruistic suicides (using E. Durkheim's typology).<br>Mezentius' final act is an egoistic/anomic suicide. The text signals<br>a suïcide by using 'moriturus'. The focalisation used by the narrator<br>makes the reader sympathize with the suicidal characters. Trying to<br>understand these deaths as suicides, is more fruitful than seeing them as<br>instances of some sort of secularised 'deuotio'.</p> AU - Yanick Maes DA - 2001/12// DO - 10.21825/kzm.v55i0.17293 IS - 0 VL - 55 PB - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis PY - 2001 TI - Deuotio an potius mors uoluntaria? Suïcidale patronen in boek 9 en 10 van Vergilius' Aeneis T2 - Handelingen - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse maatschappij voor taal- en letterkunde en geschiedenis UR - https://openjournals.ugent.be/kzm/article/id/72188/ ER -