01214 a2200253 4500 1351997815 20250317111640.0 250312042018GB eng 9781351997812 Taylor & Francis GBP 22.99 BB 01 eng QDHA thema NHC thema HPCA bic HBLA1 bic HIS002000 bisac Sonia Pertsinidis Theophrastus' Characters A New Introduction 1 Oxford Routledge 20180503 124 p This book presents an introduction to the Characters , a collection of thirty amusing descriptions of character types who lived in Athens in the fourth century BCE. The author of the work, Theophrastus, was Aristotle's colleague, his immediate successor and head of his philosophical school for thirty-five years. Pertsinidis' lively, original and scholarly monograph introduces Theophrastus as a Greek philosopher. It also outlines the remarkable influence of the Characters as a literary work and provides a detailed discussion of the work's purpose and its connection with comedy, ethics and rhetoric. 7536 7536