Characters of Theophrastus - Couverture souple

Theophrastus

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1853991880 ISBN 13 : 9781853991882

Editeur : Bristol Classical Press, 1998

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 work which had a profound influence on European literature, and this is a detailed and elaborate treatment of it. This edition presents an improved text, a translation which is designed both to be readable and to bring out fully the nuances of the very difficult Greek, and a commentary which covers every feature of the text and its interpretation and offers particularly full elucidation of the often enigmatic references to contemporary social practices and historical events. There is also a lengthy introduction, which discusses the antecedents and affiliations of the work, its date, its purpose, and the manuscript tradition. Extensive indexes are also provided, including an Index Verborum.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bristol Classical Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1853991880
• ISBN 13: 9781853991882
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 346