The Idylls - Hardcover

Theocritus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0856357111 ISBN 13: 9780856357114

Verlag: Carcanet Press Ltd, 1988

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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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• Verlag: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0856357111
• ISBN 13: 9780856357114
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180