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Theophrastus' Characters

Release on 2018-05-032018-05-03 by Sonia Pertsinidis
Theophrastus' Characters

Author: Sonia Pertsinidis

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351997812

Category: History

Page: 112

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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.
History
Theophrastus' Characters
Language: en
Pages: 112

Theophrastus' Characters

Authors: Sonia Pertsinidis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-03 - Publisher: Routledge

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
Theophrastus: Characters
Language: en
Pages: 620

Theophrastus: Characters

Authors: Théophraste, Theophrastus
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-12-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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
Theophrastus: Characters
Language: en
Pages:

Theophrastus: Characters

Authors: James Diggle
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-04-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Theophrastus:Characters is a collection of thirty 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 unique work which has had a profound influence on European literature. This edition aims to make it accessible to
Theophrastean Studies
Language: en
Pages: 352

Theophrastean Studies

Authors: William W. Fortenbaugh
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag

Theophrastus of Eresus was Aristotle's successor as head of the Peripatetic School. He is best known for a humorous collection of character sketches, but his importance in antiquity and for the history of thought in general is much greater. He was the founder of systematic botany, and his work on
Backgrounds of Early Christianity
Language: en
Pages: 676

Backgrounds of Early Christianity

Authors: Everett Ferguson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

New to this expanded & updated edition are revisions of Ferguson's original material, updated bibliographies, & a fresh dicussion of first century social life, the Dead Sea Scrolls & much else.

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