Sonia Pertsinidis

Gebundenes Buch

Theophrastus' Characters

A New Introduction

Beschreibung

This book offers and introduction to Characters, a series of thirty brief sketches of character types drawn from urban life in ancient Athens written by Theophrastus.

Autor

Sonia Pertsinidis a lecturer in Classics at The Australian National University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781138244436
• ISBN-10: 1138244430
• Artikelnr.: 52614609

Rezensionen

"With this book, Pertsinidis offers the broader reading public a friendly, clear and vivid introduction to what is indeed one of the most influential texts of classical literature. This book will be very useful for students in classics as well as anyone else with an interest in the ancient world. It contains everything that a general reader needs to know before taking the decision to delve systematically into Theophrastus' text." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"With this book, Pertsinidis offers the broader reading public a friendly, clear and vivid introduction to what is indeed one of the most influential texts of classical literature. This book will be very useful for students in classics as well as anyone else with an interest in the ancient world. It contains everything that a general reader needs to know before taking the decision to delve systematically into Theophrastus' text." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review