Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
This work is a collection of character-sketches of those who might be met in Athens in the late fourth century BC. This edition presents a radically improved text and a translation which, while readable, maintains the nuances of the Greek. The commentary is comprehensive, covering every feature of the text.
Synopsis
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 unique work which had a profound influence on European literature. This edition presents a radically improved text, a translation designed to be readable while bringing out fully the nuances of the very difficult Greek, a commentary covering every feature of the text and its interpretation, and offering full elucidation of the often enigmatic references contained therein.
About the Author
James Diggle is Professor of Greek and Latin at Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens' College. His publications include Studies on the Text of Euripides (OUP, 1981), The Textual Tradition of Euripides' Orestes (Oxford University Press, 1991), and Euripidea: Collected Essays (Oxford University Press, 1994). He was University Orator at Cambridge for eleven years, and has published a selection of his speeches in Cambridge Orations 1982-1993 (Cambridge University Press 0521 466180).