Title: Theophrasti Characteres
First published: 1628
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.
Subjects: 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), Character, Physiognomy, Greek poetry
Places: Greece
People: Menander of Athens
Time periods: Early works to 1900