THEOPHRASTUS’ ‘OLIGARCH’ AND THE POLITICAL INTENTION OF THECHARACTERS
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Published:2023-01-06
Issue:
Volume:69
Page:1-21
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ISSN:1750-2705
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Container-title:The Cambridge Classical Journal
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Camb. class. j.
Author:
Ebner-Landy Katie,de Nicolay René
Abstract
The intention of Theophrastus’Charactersstill escapes us. This paper offers a new answer to that centuries-old question by looking closely at the one political sketch of the collection: ‘The Oligarch’ (C.26). We argue that C.26 reveals a political intention in theCharacters, presenting oligarchy as the inherently flawed projection of a character trait onto political events. Read in this way, C.26 appears as a medium through which Theophrastus can take a definite but careful stance in contemporary Athenian politics.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Classics
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