Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 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 an…
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 philosophi…
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 philosophi…
