Characters
By: Theophrastus. Mimes / Herodas. Sophron and other mime fragments / [all works] edited and translated by Jeffrey Rusten, I.C. Cunningham.
Contributors: Rusten, Jeffrey S.; Cunningham, Ian Campbell.; Herodas.; Sophron, ca. 470-400 B.C.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: The Loeb classical library ;; 225
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng; grc
Number of pages: 421
Subjects: Character sketches.; Greek literature -- Translations into English.; Cynics (Greek philosophy) -- Poetry.; Pantomimes.
Genres: Translations into English.; Poetry.
Other titles: Mimes.; Sophron and other mime fragments.
Description: "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.
Notes: English and Greek parallel text; study in English.
Includes bibliographical references.