Sonia Pertsinidis

Theophrastus' Characters

A New Introduction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers and introduction to Characters, a series of thirty brief sketches of character types drawn from urban life in ancient Athens written by Theophrastus.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781138244436
• ISBN-10: 1138244430
• Artikelnr.: 52614609

Autorenporträt

Sonia Pertsinidis a lecturer in Classics at The Australian National University.

Inhaltsangabe

Sources and abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
1. Theophrastus: his life, works and character
2. Before and after Theophrastus' Characters
3. The Characters as a comedy of manners
4. Behaving badly: ethics and the Characters
5. Style, delivery and the role of character in rhetoric
6. Epilogue: conclusions and implications
Index