From Polypragmon to Curiosus: Ancient Concepts of Curious and Meddlesome Behaviour

by Matthew Leigh

From Polypragmon to Curiosus is a study of how Greek and Latin writers describe curious, meddlesome, and exaggerated behavior. Founded on a detailed investigation of a family of Greek terms, often treated as synonymous with each other, and of the Latin words used to describe them, opening chapters survey how they were used in Greek literature from the 5th and 4th centuries BC, moving onto their Latin usage and relationship to that of Hellenistic and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199668612
• ISBN13: 9780199668618
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"