Theophrastus: Characters (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, Series Number 43) - Softcover

Diggle, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521045762 ISBN 13: 9780521045766

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521045762
• ISBN 13: 9780521045766
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 612