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Theophrastus. Characters Herodas. Mimes : Cercidas and the Choliambic Poets
Theophrastus; Herodas; Cercidas and the Choliambic Poets Translator-Jeffrey Rusten; Translator-I. C. Cunningham; Translator-A. D. Knox
Published by Harvard University Press, 1993 the Loeb Classical Library Series, 1993
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Add to basketCloth in Dj. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 16mo, cloth in dj. 432 pages; This volume collects some of the liveliest examples of Greek literary portraiture. The Characters of Theophrastus sketches thirty hypothetical men, each dominated by a single fault, such as rudeness, superstitution, or greed. Unassuming…in style, the sketches nonetheless bear resemblance on the one hand to Aristotle's account of faults and virtues and on the other to the vivid figures of Menandrian New Comedy. This new text and translation by Jeffrey Rusten is based on the most recent scholarship. Herodas flourished in the 270s and 260s--the high point of Hellenistic poetry. His poems are choliambic mimes, dramatic dialogues that depict characters in everyday urban settings and situations. I. C. Cunningham presents a new translation of Herodas, based on his Teubner text. Also included here, in a reprint of the earlier Loeb edition by A. D. Knox, are the fragments of Greek poetry in the choliambic meter--especially those which offer a tantalizing glimpse into the raucous and sordid world of Hipponax--and the lyric iambics on themes of Cynic philosophy by Cercidas.
