'Eucritus and I and pretty Amyntas turned aside To the farm of Phrasidamus, where we sank down With pleasure on deep-piled couches of sweet rushes, And vine leaves freshly stripped from the bush.' The Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse (first half of the third century BC) was the inventor of 'bucolic' poetry. These vignettes of country life, ...
First published in 1950 and followed by this second edition in 1952, Gow's Theocritus comprises an authoritative text and translation of the works of the creator of Greek bucolic poetry, with an extensive commentary. The first volume presents an accessible edition with a full apparatus criticus, along with an elegant facing translation. In ...
This is the first full-scale commentary on poems by Theocritus since Gow's edition of 1950, and the first to exploit the recent revolution in the study of Hellenistic and Roman poetry; the poems included in this volume (Idylls 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 13) are principally the bucolic poems which, through their influence on Virgil, established the ...
Theocritus of the third century BCE, born at Syracuse, travelled widely in the Greek world. Having studied poetry at Cos with poet and critic Philitas, he composed poetry under patronage, chiefly perhaps at Syracuse and Cos; and then went to Alexandria in Egypt, whose King Ptolemy II (died 246 BCE), pupil of Philitas, befriended him. Here (and at ...
Definitions of all the terms used in the history of the tender passion, with rare quotations from the ancient and modern poets, plus specimens of curious model love letters, and many other interesting matters about love.
Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the 3rd century BCE, Alexandria became the capital of the Greek world. Theocritus's poem in praise of Philadelphus is the only extended poetic tribute to this ruler that survives. This text provides a translation and commentary.
LACON. Be Daphnis' woes my portion, should that my credence win! Still, if thou list to stake a kid--that surely were no sin-- Come on, I'll sing it out with thee--until thou givest in.
This is a new annotated translation of the Greek poems of Theocritus of Syracuse (first half of the third century BC), 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 bequeathed to Western literature. Although it is the pastoral ...
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Partial Contents: Theocritus Idyls; Arguments of the Idyls; Thyrsis or the Ode; Pharmaceutria or the Sorceress; The Goatherd or Amaryllis; The Shepherds; The Travelers; The Herdsmen; The Harvest Feast; The Bucolic Singers; Daphnis and Menalcas; The Reapers; The Cyclops; The Lover; Hylas; Cynisca's Love.
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