Table of Contents

Christopher Gill: The character-personality distinction; Stephen Halliwell: Traditional Greek conceptions of character; Oliver Taplin: Agamemnon's role in the Iliad; P. E. Easterling: Constructing character in Greek tragedy; Simon Goldhill: Character and action, representation and reading: Greek tragedy and its critics; Jasper Griffin: Characterization in Euripides: Hippolytus and Iphigenia in Aulis; Michael Silk: The people of Aristophanes; Lucinda Coventry:
The role of interlocutor in Plato's dialogues: Theory and practice; D. A. F. M. Russell: Ethos in oratory and rhetoric; C. B. R. Pelling: Childhood and personality in Greek biography; C. B. R. Pelling:
Conclusion

Reviews

'I would especially commend Pelling's paper, an illuminating study of ancient biography with a neat twist in the tail ... stimulating collection'
Times Literary Supplement
`the book contains important contributions to an important debate. It is well-researched, well-edited, and well-produced'
Classical Review
`This is a splendid collection of papers'
Peter Jones, The Times
'The volume coheres well, despite the diversity of views expressed, and several of these essays are likely to become standard reading for both classicists and students of drama.'
Greece & Rome, Vol.37, No.2, Oct '90