Author: Theophrastus
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Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Characters of Theophrastus an English Translation from a Revised Text with Introduction and Notes by R. C. Jebb
Theophrastus' Characters
Author: Sonia Pertsinidis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351997815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351997815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
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.
An Introduction to Greek and Latin Etymology
Author: John Peile
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Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Publisher:
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Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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The Cambridge History of English Literature: Prose and poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton
Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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The Academica of Cicero
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Hermathena
The School World
Elementary Lessons in Astronomy
Author: Sir Norman Lockyer
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Elementary Lessons in Logic
Author: William Stanley Jevons
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Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Scottish Song, a Selection of the Choicest Lyrics of Scotland
Author: Mary Aitken
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368833790
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368833790
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.