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The Characters Of Theophrastus
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Author : Theophrastus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
The Characters Of Theophrastus written by Theophrastus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with Characters and characteristics categories.
The Characters Of Theophrastus
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Author : Theophrastus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1831
The Characters Of Theophrastus written by Theophrastus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1831 with Character sketches categories.
Theophrastus Characters
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Author : Theophrastus
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-12-16
Theophrastus Characters written by Theophrastus and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-16 with History categories.
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.
The Characters Of Theophrastus
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Author : Theophrastus
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-28
The Characters Of Theophrastus written by Theophrastus and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-28 with Fiction categories.
The Characters of Theophrastus is a book by Theophrastus concerning different types of men. Contents: The Flatterer, The Coward, The Tactless Man, The Mean Man, The Stupid Man, The Superstitious Man, The Suspicious Man and many more.
The Characters Of Theophrastus
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Author : Theophrastus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
The Characters Of Theophrastus written by Theophrastus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with Character sketches categories.
The Characters Of Theophrastus
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Author : Francis Howell
language : en
Publisher: Iyer Press
Release Date : 2008-07
The Characters Of Theophrastus written by Francis Howell and has been published by Iyer Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07 with Philosophy categories.
Originally published in 1897, this early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Contents include; The function of Latin, Chansons De Geste, The Matter of Britain, Antiquity in Romance, The making of English and the settlement of European Prosody, Middle High German Poetry, The 'Fox, ' The 'Rose, ' and the minor Contributions of France, Icelandic and Provencal, The Literature of the Peninsulas, and Conclusion..... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwor
Theophrastus Characters
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Author : Sonia Pertsinidis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-05-03
Theophrastus Characters written by Sonia Pertsinidis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-03 with History categories.
This book presents an introduction to the Characters, a collection of thirty amusing descriptions of character types who lived in Athens in the fourth century BCE. The author of the work, Theophrastus, was Aristotle's colleague, his immediate successor and head of his philosophical school for thirty-five years. Pertsinidis' lively, original and scholarly monograph introduces Theophrastus as a Greek philosopher. It also outlines the remarkable influence of the Characters as a literary work and provides a detailed discussion of the work's purpose and its connection with comedy, ethics and rhetoric.
The Characters Of Theophrastus
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Author : Theophrastus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1824
The Characters Of Theophrastus written by Theophrastus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1824 with Character categories.
Theophrastus Characters
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Author : James Romm
language : en
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release Date : 2022-08-30
Theophrastus Characters written by James Romm and has been published by Blackstone Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
"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.
Characters Of Theophrastus
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Author : Theophrastus
language : en
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Release Date : 1993
Characters Of Theophrastus written by Theophrastus and has been published by Bristol Classical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Characters of Theophrastus are unique in the history of letters. They have been much imitated, never bettered. The text can be obscure, and the Greek can be a little monotonous although not without a certain charm and aptness - as though the stark phrases were deliberately chosen to lay bare the failings of mankind. This revised edition includes up-to-date references, to supplement the Bibliography, and adds an Appendix of new material.