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Menander: Plays & Fragments Theophrastus: The Characters

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Heroism and moral grandeur are the keynotes of most classical Greek literature; realism as we have known it, is rare. The two writers included in this volume are among the few who have drawn faces in the Greek crowd and shown them to us as they were.

Theophrastus , the Aristotelian philosopher and botanist, is best known for his unique book, The Characters, a series of portraits of such types as the boor, the slanderer, and the ironical man. These certainly influenced his pupil, Menander , who may have even used them as blue-prints for the more realistic characters of the Greek Middle Comedy: later they were translated and imitated by La Bruyere. Through his Roman imitators, Plautus and Terence, he proved to be the originator of European formal comedy, as seen in Moliere, Congreve, Sheridan and even Oscar Wilde.

Introduction

THEOPHRASTUS
The Characters

MENANDER
The bad-tempered man
The arbitration
The unkindest cut
The Samian woman
The hero
The farmer
The Sicyonian
Shorter fragments

Language: English

Pages: 247

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 0317

Menander: Plays & Fragments Theophrastus: The Characters

0/5 ( ratings)

Heroism and moral grandeur are the keynotes of most classical Greek literature; realism as we have known it, is rare. The two writers included in this volume are among the few who have drawn faces in the Greek crowd and shown them to us as they were.

Theophrastus , the Aristotelian philosopher and botanist, is best known for his unique book, The Characters, a series of portraits of such types as the boor, the slanderer, and the ironical man. These certainly influenced his pupil, Menander , who may have even used them as blue-prints for the more realistic characters of the Greek Middle Comedy: later they were translated and imitated by La Bruyere. Through his Roman imitators, Plautus and Terence, he proved to be the originator of European formal comedy, as seen in Moliere, Congreve, Sheridan and even Oscar Wilde.

Introduction

THEOPHRASTUS
The Characters

MENANDER
The bad-tempered man
The arbitration
The unkindest cut
The Samian woman
The hero
The farmer
The Sicyonian
Shorter fragments

Language: English

Pages: 247

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 0317

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