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"This volume collects important examples of Greek literary portraiture.".
"The Characters of Theophrastus consists of thirty fictional sketches of men who are each dominated by a single fault, such as arrogance, boorishness, or superstition. Unassuming in style, his character sketches nonetheless bear resemblance to the vivid figures of the period's New Comedy. The Hellenistic poet Herodas wrote mimes, a popular Greek entertainment in which one actor or a small group portrayed a situation from everyday urban life, concentrating on depiction of character rather than on plot.
Here too in a new text and translation are substantial portions of the mimes of Sophron, a Syracusan of the 5th century B.C. whose work Plato is said to have enjoyed, as well as a selection of anonymous mime fragments.".
"The extant work of Sophron and the anonymous mime fragments are newly added to the Loeb Classical Library in this edition. And Jeffrey Rusten and Ian Cunningham have updated their editions of Theophrastus and Herodas (both first published in 1993) in light of the latest scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.
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Ancient Ethics, Character sketches, Characters and characteristics, Conduct of life, Cynics (Greek philosophy), Drama, Early works to 1800, Greek Education, Greek drama (Comedy), Greek literature, Pantomimes, Poetry, Translations into English, Greek language materials, Filosofia grega, Portraits (Littérature), Ouvrages avant 1800, Cyniques (Philosophie grecque), Filosofia antiga, Poésie, Pantomima, Cyniques, Greek literature, translations into english, Classical literature, history and criticism, Theophrastus, Characters and characteristics in literature, Kommentar, Historia antiga, Grecia (filosofia), CharacterPeople
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The Characters
September 26, 1991, Open Gate Press
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Edition Notes
Parallel text in Greek and English.
Includes bibliographical references.
Previous ed.: The characters of Theophrastus / newly edited and translated by J.M. Edmonds. Herodes, Cercidas, and the Greek choliambic poets : (except Callimachus and Babrius) / edited and translated by A.D. Knox. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press ; London : W. Heinemann, 1929. (The Loeb classical library).
"This edition of Theophrastus and that of Herodas ... replace those in the original Loeb volume (1929) ... The rest of that volume--Knox's edition and translation of Hipponax, Cercidas, and the other choliambic poets--is reprinted here without change"--Pref.
The third work consists of an introduction followed by parallel Greek and English texts by Hipponax, Ananius, Cercidas, and fragments by various other authors.
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