Theophrastus - Characters

Informationen zum Autor James Diggle is Professor of Greek and Latin at Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens' College. His publications include Studies on the Text of Euripides (OUP! 1981)! The Textual Tradition of Euripides' Orestes (Oxford University Press! 1991)! and Euripidea: Collected Essays (Oxford University Press! 1994). He was University Orator at Cambridge for eleven years! and has published a selection of his speeches in Cambridge Orations 1982-1993 (Cambridge University Press 0521 466180). Klappentext This edition offers an improved text and translation of the collection! with a comprehensive commentary. Zusammenfassung This work is a collection of character-sketches of those who might be met in Athens in the late fourth century BC. This edition presents an improved text and a translation which! while readable! maintains the nuances of the Greek. The commentary is comprehensive! covering every feature of the text. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction: 1. Theophrastus and his times; 2. The nature and purpose of the Characters; 3. Date; 4. Transmission; 5. Some texts and commentaries; Text and translation; Commentary; Abbreviations and bibliography; Indexes.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: James Diggle, Theophrastus
• Mitarbeit: J. Diggle (Herausgeber), James Diggle (Herausgeber), James Diggle (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 16.12.2004
• EAN: 9780521839808
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83980-8
• Abmessung: 145 mm x 223 mm x 37 mm
• Serie: Cambridge Classical Texts and
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Klassische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft