Theophrastus and Moral Formation in the Greco Roman World

Theophrastus is the name it's called the characters or ethical characters in Greek ethicoic character. Theophrastus does these 30 character sketches that are gut wrenchingly funny where you get this window into what it was like to live in Athens and so he would do these little sketches in between maybe delivering sort of lecture on something they would do these funny sketches. Cody: I'm trying to think about a few different streams of things at the same time. One being how did people's in the time of the New Testament in the Greco Roman world how did they conceptualize character? And then the way that that gets we could say typified or put into rhetoric by the apostle