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The Idyllia, Epigrams, and Fragments, of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, With the Elegies of Tyrtaeus, Translated From the Greek Into English Verse. To Which are Added, Dissertations and Notes. By the Rev. Richard Polwhele, (Hardcover)
Theocritus
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Theocritus (early third century BCE), born in Syracuse and also
active on Cos and at Alexandria, was the inventor of the bucolic
genre. Like his contemporary Callimachus, Theocritus was a learned
poet who followed the aesthetic, developed a generation earlier by
Philitas of Cos (LCL 508), of refashioning traditional literary
forms in original ways through tightly organized and highly
polished work on a small scale (thus the traditional generic title
Idylls: "little forms"). Although Theocritus composed in a variety
of genres or generic combinations, including encomium, epigram,
hymn, mime, and epyllion, he is best known for the poems set in the
countryside, mostly dialogues or song-contests, that combine lyric
tone with epic meter and the Doric dialect of his native Sicily to
create an idealized and evocatively described pastoral landscape,
whose lovelorn inhabitants, presided over by the Nymphs, Pan, and
Priapus, use song as a natural mode of expression. The
bucolic/pastoral genre was developed by the second and third
members of the Greek bucolic canon, Moschus (fl. mid second century
BCE, also from Syracuse) and Bion (fl. some fifty years later, from
Phlossa near Smyrna), and remained vital through Greco-Roman
antiquity and into the modern era. This edition of Theocritus,
Moschus, and Bion, together with the so-called "pattern poems"
included in the bucolic tradition, replaces the earlier Loeb
Classical Library edition by J. M. Edmonds (1912), using the
critical texts of Gow (1952) and Gallavotti (1993) as a base and
providing a fresh translation with ample annotation.
Written primarily in Greek, 1914/1967 edition.
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Idylls (Paperback)
Theocritus; Translated by Anthony Verity; Introduction by Richard Hunter
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A key figure in the development of Western literature, the Greek
poet Theocritus of Syracuse, was the inventor of "bucolic" or
pastoral poetry in the first half of the third century BC. These
vignettes of country life, which center on competitions of song and
love are the foundational poems of the western pastoral tradition.
They were the principal model for Virgil in the Eclogues and their
influence can be seen in the work of Petrarch and Milton. Although
it is the pastoral poems for which he is chiefly famous, Theocritus
also wrote hymns to the gods, brilliant mime depictions of everyday
life, short narrative epics, epigrams, and encomia of the powerful.
The great variety of his poems illustrates the rich and flourishing
poetic culture of what was a golden age of Greek poetry.
Based on the original Greek text, this accurate and fluent
translation is the only edition of the complete Idylls currently in
print. It includes an accessible introduction by Richard Hunter
that describes what is known of Theocritus, the poetic tradition
and Theocritus' innovations and what exactly is meant by "bucolic"
poetry.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
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scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Theocritus
Theocritus
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