The Idylls - Hardcover
The Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse (first half of the third century BC) was the inventor of 'bucolic' poetry. These vignettes of country life, centred on competitions in 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 for Greek poetry.
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- PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0856357111
- ISBN 13 9780856357114
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages180
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THE IDYLLS OF THEOCRITUS.
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Book Description 8vo. pp: 160. First edition thus. Original publisher's black boards with gilt lettering at spine in original publisher's yellow, white and brown illustrated dust jacket. ISBN: 0856357111 Dust jacket may show slight signs of shelfwear with small surface marks to front and rear covers. Otherwise tight and clean copy. Very good. Seller Inventory # C69563
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