Thersites
Americannoun
noun
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Shakespeare did no more than Homer to explain Thersites, to give him either a backstory or a motive.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 9, 2016
In Troilus and Cressida, the strangely comic character Thersites announces Ajax by saying “for, whosoever you take him to be, he is Ajax.”
From Time ● Sep. 20, 2013
Simon Russell Beale makes the central character more coherent than ever before, and more vital, more important, more all-encompassing – part Thersites, part corporation smoothie, part Lear.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2012
In 1981 Jonathan Miller let him loose on the role of Thersites in his Troilus and Cressida for the BBC.
From The Guardian ● May 28, 2010
You may ask, as Menippus in Lucian, which is Nireus, which Thersites, which the beggar, which the knight;—for they are all suited in the same form of a kind of nasty poverty.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
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