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Author : Jean de La Bruyère
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère written by Jean de La Bruyère and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These writings provide a unique view of the height of 17th-century French culture.
Author : James Romm
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0935112987
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Theophrastus' Characters written by James Romm and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Author : Theophrastus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521839808
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Theophrastus: Characters written by Theophrastus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-16 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Theophrastus
Publisher : Baltimore : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (67 download)
Download or read book The Characters written by Theophrastus and published by Baltimore : Penguin Books. This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Diggle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108934595
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Theophrastus: Characters written by James Diggle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 students, by offering a radically improved text and a commentary which brings out the meaning and nuances of the dazzling but sometimes difficult Greek and offers full elucidation of the often enigmatic references to contemporary social practices and historical events. There is also a full introduction, which discusses the antecedents and affiliations of the work, its date, its purpose, and its literary qualities.
Author : Sonia Pertsinidis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351997815
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Theophrastus' Characters written by Sonia Pertsinidis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Theophrastus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Characters of Theophrastus written by Theophrastus and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theophrastus
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Characters of Theophrastus written by Theophrastus and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Theophrastus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Characters written by Theophrastus and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theophrastus
Publisher : Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Incorporated
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Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Theophrastus' Characters written by Theophrastus and published by Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bryn Mawr Commentaries provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts to the direct experience of ancient Greek and Latin literature. They assume that the student will know the basics of grammar and vocabulary and then provide the specific grammatical and lexical notes that a student requires to begin the task of interpretation. Hackett Publishing Company is the exclusive distributor of the Bryn Mawr Commentaries in North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
Author : George Eliot
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Impressions of Theophrastus Such written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theophrastus Theophrastus
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ISBN 13 : 9781442153226
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Characters of Theophrastus written by Theophrastus Theophrastus and published by . This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theophrastus (371-c.287 BC), a Greek native of Eressos in Lesbos, was the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. His interests were wide-ranging, extending from biology and physics to ethics and metaphysics. His two surviving botanical works, Enquiry into Plants and On the Causes of Plants, were an important influence on medieval science. There are also surviving works On Moral Characters, On Sensation, On Stones, and fragments on Physics and Metaphysics all written in Greek. In philosophy, he studied grammar and language, and continued Aristotle's work on logic. He also regarded space as the mere arrangement and position of bodies, time as an accident of motion, and motion as a necessary consequence of all activity. In ethics, he regarded happiness as depending on external influences as well as on virtue, and famously said that "life is ruled by fortune, not wisdom." He succeeded Aristotle at the Lyceum.
Author : Theophrastus
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Characters of Theophrastus written by Theophrastus and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theophrastus
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Characters of Theophrastus written by Theophrastus and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theophrastus
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Total Pages : 316 pages
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Download or read book The Moral Characters of Theophrastus written by Theophrastus and published by . This book was released on 1725 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theophrastus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521045766
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Theophrastus: Characters written by Theophrastus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theophrastus' Characters is a collection of thirty short character-sketches of various types of individuals who walked the streets of Athens in the late fourth century BC. This edition presents a radically improved text for a unique work which had a profound influence on European literature. The translation is designed to be readable and reveals the nuances of the original Greek--through a comprehensive commentary that clarifies the often enigmatic references within the text.
Author : Paul Millett
Publisher : Cambridge Philological Society
ISBN 13 : 1913701395
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Theophrastus and His World written by Paul Millett and published by Cambridge Philological Society. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first extended study in English of Theophrastus' Characters, one of the briefest but also most influential works to survive from classical antiquity. Since the seventeenth century, the Characters has served as a model and an inspiration for authors as diverse as La Bruyère, Thackeray, George Eliot and Elias Canetti. This study aims to locate Theophrastus and his Characters with respect to the political and philosophical worlds of Athens in the late fourth century, focusing on later imitators in order to provide clues to reading the Theophrastan original. Special attention is paid to the problems and possibilities of the Characters as testimony to the culture and society of contemporary Athens, integrating the text into the extensive fragments and testimonies of Theophrastus' other writings. The implications for the historian of the elusive humour of the Characters, dependent in large measure on the device of caricature, are explored in detail. What emerges is a picture of the complex etiquette appropriate for upper-class citizens in the home, the streets and other public places in Athens where individuals were on display. Through their resolutely shaming behaviour, the Characters illuminate the honour for which citizens should, by implication, be striving. A key theme of the study is Theophrastus' ambivalent position in Athens: a distinguished philosopher and head of the Lyceum, yet still subject to the disabilities of his metic status.
