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Theocritus: A Selection - Idylls 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 13 (Paperback)
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Theocritus: A Selection - Idylls 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 13 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
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This is the first full-scale commentary on poems by Theocritus
since Gow's edition of 1950, and the first to exploit the recent
revolution in the study of Hellenistic and Roman poetry; the poems
included in this volume (Idylls 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 13) are
principally the bucolic poems which, through their influence on
Virgil, established the Western pastoral tradition. The focus of
the commentary is literary - both on how Theocritus exploited the
classical heritage for a new type of poetry, and on what that
poetry meant in the third century BC. The commentary, together with
the introductory essays to each poem, makes a major contribution to
the understanding of this extraordinary poetic form. The
Introduction explores the meaning of 'bucolic', the presentation of
a stylised countryside, the importance of eros in the bucolic
world, and Theocritus' verbal and metrical style.
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