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Theophrastus: Characters

James Diggle (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
260 Seiten
2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-93279-0 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
Theophrastus: Characters is a work of supreme importance and interest both as a pioneering text of world literature and as a document illustrating many aspects of ancient society. This edition makes it accessible to students by offering full help with understanding its sometimes difficult language and often enigmatic references.
Theophrastus:Characters is a collection of thirty 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 has had a profound influence on European literature. This edition aims to make it accessible to students, by offering a radically improved text and a commentary which brings out the meaning and nuances of the dazzling but sometimes difficult Greek and offers full elucidation of the often enigmatic references to contemporary social practices and historical events. There is also a full introduction, which discusses the antecedents and affiliations of the work, its date, its purpose, and its literary qualities.

JAMES DIGGLE is Professor Emeritus of Greek and Latin at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens' College, where he was Director of Studies in Classics for over forty years. His publications include The Phaethon of Euripides (Cambridge, 1970), Flauii Cresconii Corippi Iohannidos Libri VIII (joint editor, Cambridge, 1970), Euripidis Fabulae (Oxford Classical Text, 3 vols., 1981–1994), Studies on the Text of Euripides (1981), The Textual Tradition of Euripides' Orestes (1991), Euripidea: Collected Essays (1994), Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta Selecta (1998), Theophrastus, Characters (Cambridge, 2004). He was University Orator at Cambridge for eleven years and has published a selection of his speeches (Cambridge Orations 1982–1993 (Cambridge, 1994)). He is also joint editor of The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman (Cambridge, 1972), joint author of Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca (Cambridge, 2005), and Editor-in-Chief of The Cambridge Greek Lexicon (Cambridge, 2021). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens.

Introduction; Theophrastus: Characters; Commentary; Bibliography; Indexes.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 330 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-108-93279-7 / 1108932797
ISBN-13 978-1-108-93279-0 / 9781108932790
Zustand Neuware
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