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Theophrastus of Eresus commentary volume 9.1 : sources on music (Texts 714-726C)
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ISSN: 00791687 ISBN: 9004362282 9789004362284 9789004362277 9004362274 Year: 2018 Volume: 149 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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Among the many subjects on which Theophrastus wrote, music is one of the most fascinating, as is testified by the sources discussed in this volume. Although scanty, the material we have—sixteen texts altogether, most of which are indirect testimonies—gives an idea of the originality and modernity of Theophrastus’ thought on music, and makes us regret that we do not know more. Our philosopher conceives of music as something that originates from a movement in the soul caused by passions and comes into existence through the body. Accordingly, he is interested in performance—i.e. the way in which musical expression is brought to the listener—and its effects on the soul and the body—e.g. musical therapy.


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Theophrastus' Characters : a new introduction
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ISBN: 1315276925 9781138244436 1351997815 9781315276922 9781351997829 1351997823 9781351997805 1351997807 9781351997812 9780367607050 Year: 2018 Publisher: Abingdon : Routledge

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This book presents an introduction to the Characters, a collection of thirty amusing descriptions of character types who lived in Athens in the fourth century BCE. The author of the work, Theophrastus, was Aristotle's colleague, his immediate successor and head of his philosophical school for thirty-five years. Pertsinidis' lively, original and scholarly monograph introduces Theophrastus as a Greek philosopher. It also outlines the remarkable influence of the Characters as a literary work and provides a detailed discussion of the work's purpose and its connection with comedy, ethics and rhetoric.


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Les pierres
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ISBN: 9782251006239 2251006230 Year: 2018 Volume: 539 Publisher: Paris les Belles lettres

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