''Idou o anthropos'' (
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
: Ἰδοὺ ὁ ἄνθρωπος; ''
Ecce homo'' or ''Behold the Man''), written in 1886, is a work by the poet and writer
Andreas Laskaratos
Andreas Laskaratos ( el, Ανδρέας Λασκαράτος; 1 May 1811 – 23/24 July 1901) was a satirical poet and writer from the Ionian island of Cefalonia (or Kefallinia), representative of the Heptanese School (literature). He was excom ...
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The main theme of the book is human characters and through a series of examples it tries to acquaint the reader with the different attributes of the human psyche in its different manifestations.
The multitude of different characters portrayed in the book is an early attempt to categorize people according to their personality traits.
Idou anthropos (
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
: Ἰδοὺ ἄνθρωπος) is also the words ironically uttered by Pilate, when condemning Jesus, Jesus being in the epitomal state of God becoming Man.
References
Modern Greek literature
Heptanese School (literature)
New Testament Greek words and phrases
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