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James Romm

Theophrastus' Characters

An Ancient Take on Bad Behavior

Ebook (EPUB Format)

These Characters are people we know-they're our quirky neighbors, our creepy bosses, our blind dates from hell. Sharp-tongued Theophrastus, made sharper than ever in this fresh new edition, reminds us that Athenian weirdness is as ageless as Athenian wisdom. -Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, presenter of BBC's CivilisationsThe more things change, the more they stay the same: Theophrastus' Characters, a classical Greek text newly translated for a modern audience, is a joyful festival of fault-finding. This ebook edition includes a lively reading by award-winning actor Billy Crudup and outlines 30 characters, each crys… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Carrilho, Andre (Illustr.) / Mensch, Pamela (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-935112-98-6
  • EAN: 9780935112986
  • Produktnummer: 34899859
  • Verlag: Callaway Arts & Entertainment
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 6'365 KB
  • Abbildungen: illustrations by famous illustrator Andre Carrilho

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The Greek text of Characters is rather messy, with lots of sentences in dispute (or simply unintelligible) due to copyists' errors in the transmission process. Only a few years ago, a new edition of the Greek text by James Diggle sorted out many of these problems. This new English version by Pamela Mensch takes advantage of that cleaned-up Greek text.

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