| Other author/creator | Theocritus author. |
| Other author/creator | Bion, of Phlossa near Smyrna author. |
| Other author/creator | Moschus, author. |
| Other author/creator | Hopkinson, Neil, 1957-2021 editor, translator. |
| Included Work | Theocritus Poems. Selections. English. |
| Included Work | Theocritus Poems. Selections. |
| Included Work | Bion, of Phlossa near Smyrna Poems. Selections. English. |
| Included Work | Bion, of Phlossa near Smyrna Poems. Selections. |
| Included Work | Moschus. Poems. Selections. English. |
| Included Work | Moschus. Poems. Selections. |
| Series |
Loeb classical library ; LCL 28
Loeb classical library 28. ^A467228
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| Contents |
Theocritus: Testimonia ; Idylls ; Fragments ; Epigrams -- Moschus: Testimonia ; Eros the runaway ; Europa ; Lament for Bion ; Megara ; Fragments -- Bion: Testimonia ; Lament for Adonis ; Wedding song of Achilles and Deidamia ; Fragments -- Adonis dead -- Bucolic fragment (P. Rainer 29801) -- Pattern poems (Technopaegnia). |
| Abstract |
"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."-- Publisher description. |
| General note | A previous edition of this volume of Loeb classical library, translated by J.M. Edmonds, was published in 1928 and 1996 under the title: The Greek bucolic poets. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | Texts in Greek with English translations on facing pages; introduction in English. |
| LCCN | 2014947085 |
| ISBN | 9780674996441 |
| ISBN | 0674996445 |
