TheophrastusAE Characters: A New Introduction (Routledge Focus on Classical Studies)

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.

• | Author: Sonia Pertsinidis
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Apr 25, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 112 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138244430
• | ISBN-13: 9781138244436