Characters/Mimes/Cercidas and the Choliambic Poets

Fülszöveg

This volume collects some of the liveliest examples of Greek literary portraiture.
The Characters of Theophrastus (c. 370-285^ Bc) consists of thirty fictional sketches of men who are each dominated by a single fault, such as arrogance, boorish-ness, or superstition. Unassuming in style, they nonetheless bear resemblance on the one hand to Aristotle's account of faults and virtues (in the Nicomachean Ethics) and to the vivid figures of Menandrian New Comedy on the other. They have had a seminal influence on European literature since the sixteenth century, especially through the seventeenth-century translation and imitations of La Bruyere. This new text and translation by Jeffrey Rusten is based on the most recent scholarship.
Herodas flourished c. 280-260 bc, at the height of Hellenistic poetry. His poems are choliambic mimes, dramatic dialogues in everyday urban settings and situations. I. C. Cunningham presents here a new translation of Herodas, based on his Teubner text.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This volume collects some of the liveliest examples of Greek literary portraiture.
The Characters of Theophrastus (c. 370-285^ Bc) consists of thirty fictional sketches of men who are each dominated by a single fault, such as arrogance, boorish-ness, or superstition. Unassuming in style, they nonetheless bear resemblance on the one hand to Aristotle's account of faults and virtues (in the Nicomachean Ethics) and to the vivid figures of Menandrian New Comedy on the other. They have had a seminal influence on European literature since the sixteenth century, especially through the seventeenth-century translation and imitations of La Bruyere. This new text and translation by Jeffrey Rusten is based on the most recent scholarship.
Herodas flourished c. 280-260 bc, at the height of Hellenistic poetry. His poems are choliambic mimes, dramatic dialogues in everyday urban settings and situations. I. C. Cunningham presents here a new translation of Herodas, based on his Teubner text.
This volume also includes, in a reprint of the earlier Loeb edition by A. D. Knox, the fragments of Greek poetry in the choliambic meter — especially those which offer a tantalizing glimpse into the raucous and sordid world of Hipponax of Ephesus (6th century bc) - and the lyric iambics
Continued on back flap
(first discovered on papyrus in 1911) on themes of Cynic philosophy by Cercidas (3rd century bc). Vissza