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Characters; Mimes; Sophron and Other Mime Fragments

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#398485-XL34
Titel	Characters; Mimes; Sophron and Other Mime Fragments
Auteur	Theophrastus & Herodas
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Harvard University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2002
ISBN10	0674996038
ISBN13	9780674996038
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original gilt lettered green cloth, dust jacket, edited and translated by Jeffrey Rusten and I.C. Cunningham, 8vo. Loeb Classical Library.
Samenvatting	This volume collects important examples of Greek literary portraiture. The Characters of Theophrastus consists of thirty fictional sketches of men who are each dominated by a single fault, such as arrogance, boorishness, or superstition. The Hellenistic poet Herodas wrote mimes, a popular entertainment in which one actor or a small group portrayed a situation from everyday life, concentrating on depiction of character rather than on plot. The volume also includes a new translation and text of extant portions of the mimes of Sophron, a Syracusan of the fifth century BCE Here too is a selection of anonymous mime fragments. The work of Sophron and the anonymous mime fragments are newly added to the Loeb Classical Library in this second edition of a volume published in 1993. Jeffrey Rusten and... (Lees verder) Ian Cunningham have also updated their editions of Theophrastus and Herodas.
Pagina's	421
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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