The 2,300-Year-Old Character Sketches That Have Influenced Western Literature Ever Since
"The 'Theophrastan character' is not often mentioned today, perhaps because it is so little known as a genre. Yet for centuries this was what 'character' meant in literature. A list of familiar social types compiled in the fourth century B.C. that chronicled human traits and foibles " from bore to boaster, cynic to coward " […]