Characters Of Theophrastus
Author: last_name: Theophrastus
Language: English
Year: 1902

Theophrastus ( c. 371 – c. 287 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic School.   He wrote on many topics:  biology, geology, physics, metaphysics, psychology, ethics, logic – and more.  His book Characters… contains thirty brief, vigorous, and trenchant outlines of moral types, which form a most valuable picture of the life of his time, and in fact of human nature in general. They are the first recorded attempt at systematic character writing.  “Apart from