Idou o anthropos written in 1886, is a work by poet and writer Andreas Laskaratos

Andreas Laskaratos

Andreas Laskaratos was a satirical poet and writer from the Ionian island of Cefalonia or [Kefallinia]. He was excommunicated by the Greek Orthodox Church because his satire targeted many of the church's eponymous members....

. 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 are an early attempt to categorize people according to their personality traits.