The Character-Personality Distinction

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Abstract In this chapter, I want to explore further a distinction which I have used elsewhere in connection with characterization in ancient literature. In one discussion, I used the distinction to discriminate between what I saw as the prevailing approaches of ancient and modern biographers to their subjects, associating the ancient approach with ‘character’ and the modern one rather with ‘personality’. In a subsequent discussion, I used a related distinction (between a ‘character-viewpoint’ and a ‘personality-viewpoint’) to identify different types of audience response to the presentation of figures in Greek tragedy.

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