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Idylls - Oxford World's Classics
Theocritus
Idylls - Oxford World's Classics
Theocritus
Theocritus of Syracuse (first half of the third century BC) was the inventor of 'bucolic' poetry, the principal model for Virgil in the Eclogues and the foundational figure of the western pastoral tradition. The great variety of his other poems - hymns, short narrative epics, mimes, encomia, and epigrams - illustrates the rich and flourishing poetic culture of what was a golden age for Greek poetry.
144 pages, 1 map; 1 line drawing
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 11, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780199552429 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 144 |
Dimensions | 130 × 197 × 9 mm · 116 g |
Language | English |
Translator | Verity, Anthony (, Formerly Headmaster of Leeds Grammar School and Master of Dulwich College) |
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