Theocritus: Idylls
Anthony Verity
250 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0198152906
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Language: English
Publish: 1043308800000
AncientAncient HistoryClassical StudiesClassicsFictionGreeceLiteratureMythologyPhilosophyPoetry
This is a new annotated translation of the Greek poems of Theocritus of Syracuse (first half of the third century BC), the inventor of “bucolic” or “pastoral” poetry, the principal model for Virgil in the Eclogues, and hence a major figure in the literary traditions that antiquity bequeathed
to Western literature.