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Author | : James Romm |
Publisher | : Blackstone Publishing |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2022-08-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0935112987 |
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"These Characters are people we know―they're our quirky neighbors, our creepy bosses, our blind dates from hell. Sharp-tongued Theophrastus, made sharper than ever in this fresh new edition, reminds us that Athenian weirdness is as ageless as Athenian wisdom." –Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, presenter of BBC's Civilisations When Aristotle wrote that that "comedy is about people worse than ourselves," he may have been recalling a hard-edged gem of a treatise written by his favorite student, Theophrastus. Theophrastus' Characters is a joyous festival of fault-finding: a collection of thirty closely observed personality portraits, defining the full spectrum of human flaws, failings, and follies. With piquant details of speech and behavior taken straight off the streets of ancient Athens, Theophrastus gives us sketches of the mean, vile, and annoying that are comically distorted yet vividly real. Enlivened by Pamela Mensch's fresh translation―the first widely available English version in over half a century―Theophrastus' Characters transports us to a world populated by figures of flesh and blood, not bronze and marble. The wry, inventive drawings help envoke the cankered wit of this most modern of ancient texts. Lightly but helpfully annotated by classicist James Romm, these thirty thumbnail portraits are startlingly recognizable twenty-three centuries later. The characters of Theophrastus are archetypes of human nature that remain insightful, caustic, and relevant.
Author | : Jean de La Bruyère |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Characters and characteristics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Theophrastus |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2004-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521839808 |
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Theophrastus' Characters is a collection of 30 short character-sketches of various types of individuals who might be met in the streets of Athens in the late fourth century BC. It is a work which had a profound influence on European literature, and this is a detailed and elaborate treatment of it. This edition presents an improved text, a translation which is designed both to be readable and to bring out fully the nuances of the very difficult Greek, and a commentary which covers every feature of the text and its interpretation and offers particularly full elucidation of the often enigmatic references to contemporary social practices and historical events. There is also a lengthy introduction, which discusses the antecedents and affiliations of the work, its date, its purpose, and the manuscript tradition. Extensive indexes are also provided, including an Index Verborum.
Author | : Theophrastus |
Publisher | : Baltimore : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Character sketches |
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Author | : Theophrastus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Character sketches |
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Author | : Theophrastus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Characters and characteristics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Theophrastus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1831 |
Genre | : Character sketches |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Theophrastus |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1967 |
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Author | : George Eliot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1901 |
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Author | : Theophrastus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1831 |
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