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Idylls (Oxford World's Classics) Book
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Idylls : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199552429 : 0199552428 : 15 Oct 2008 : 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..."
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Blackwell
This is an annotated translation of the Greek poems of Theocritus of Syracuse, the inventor of bucolic or pastoral poetry, the principal model for Virgil in the 'Eclogues' and hence a major figure in the literary traditions which antiquity...
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Pickabook
Theocritus, Anthony Verity (Trans)
- 0199552428
- 9780199552429
- Theocritus
- 11 September 2008
- OUP Oxford
- Paperback (Book)
- 144
- New Ed. /
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