出版社：Universidad de Aveiro, Departamento de Línguas e Culturas
摘要：The description of characters has given rise to great interest in all periods and the
Classical world has handed down a landmark work on the theme, Theophrastus’s
Characters, where the flatterer doesn’t receive such deeply negative and derogatory
connotations as one is bound to come across in other Latin authors. We have, as an example,
made a brief survey of some Latin literature texts in which the flatterer is differently dealt
with: in Terence’s Eunuch, in several works by Cicero, in Horace’s Epistles and The Art of
Poetry, in Livy’s work, in Petronius’s Satiricon, in Seneca’s Epistles and Natural Questions,
in Quintilian’s Institutiones and in Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars.
关键词：Classical Latin Literature; characters; flattery.
