This collection of commentaries by contributors such as Pelling, C.J. Gill, P.E. Easterling, F.S. Halliwell, D.A.F.M. Russell, S. Godhill, L. Coventry, M.S. Silk, O.P. Taplin, and J. Griffin examines a range of topics including childhood and personality in Greek biography, the construction of character in Greek tragedy, ethos as rhetorical theory, characterization in Plato's dialogues, the people of Aristophanes, the role of Agamemnon in the Iliad, and characterization in Euripides.

""A splendid collection of papers.""

""The authors, employing a variety of critical approaches, combine theoretical statements with analysis of specific passages. The result is rich and stimulating....A rewarding experience, not least for the open-endedness of its essays, which invite us as readers to reconceived our approach to the figures of Greek literature, and to the works in which they appear.""

Edited by Christoper Pelling, Fellow and Praelector in Classics, University College, Oxford