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Idylls

Idylls

Theocritus
Hunter, Richard
Verity, Anthony

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Series: Oxford World's Classics

Literary Criticism

Publisher Price: $11.95

ISBN10: 0199552428
ISBN13: 9780199552429
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Oct 15 2008
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.50
Language: English
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.

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