Theophrastus' Characters

<p>This book presents an introduction to the <i>Characters</i> 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 <i>Characters</i> as a literary work and provides a detailed discussion of the work's purpose and its connection with comedy ethics and rhetoric. </p>