TY - GEN AU - Teofrasto AU - Maria de Fátima Silva TI - Caracteres SN - 978-989-26-0900-3 PY - 2014/// PB - Coimbra University Press KW - Portuguese N1 - Open Access N2 - This publication includes the translation of the Characters of Theophrastus, with an introduction and footnotes, following the recent edition and commentary by J. Diggle. In the introduction, after a short information about the author and his intellectual activity, the different literary genres are considered that left their influence on this production by Theophrastus: the ethic thought of Aristotle, contemporary rhetoric and New Comedy. The study is complemented with an actualized bibliography UR - https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-0900-3 UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/42682 ER -