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The publication includes the works: "Letters to the Hetaerae" by Alciphron, a Greek rhetorician and writer of the 2nd century AD, "Characters" by Theophrastus (372−287 BC) - an ancient Greek philosopher, scientist, and student of Aristotle. "Letters to the Hetaerae" by Alciphron recreates the life and everyday life of Greek priestesses of love and their relationships with prominent people. Almost all the names of the authors of the letters and their addressees are historically accurate. They really lived in the 4th century BC, and their life adventures, which Alciphron recreated, even through the 5th–6th centuries later, were well known to the Greek society of that time. Alciphron's letters had an influence on European epistolography.
"Characters" by Theophrastus is a unique gallery of literary portraits devoid of human virtues. The author skillfully depicts the most typical human flaws that determine a person's respective temperament, that is, his character. The work had a tangible influence on ancient and later European literature.