Author: ThéocritePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Idylls and Epigrams
Author: ThéocriteTheocritus: A Selection
Author: TheocritusPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521574204
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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 Western pastoral tradition. The focus of the commentary is literary - both on how Theocritus exploited the classical heritage for a new type of poetry, and on what that poetry meant in the third century BC. The commentary, together with the introductory essays to each poem, makes a major contribution to the understanding of this extraordinary poetic form. The Introduction explores the meaning of 'bucolic', the presentation of a stylised countryside, the importance of eros in the bucolic world, and Theocritus' verbal and metrical style.
Brill's Companion to Theocritus
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004466711
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Brill's Companion to Theocritus offers an up-to-date guide to a thorough understanding of Theocritus’ literary output. Exploring his corpus from a variety of novel perspectives, it presents a detailed account of the intricacy of Theocritus’ poetic art.
The Idylls of Theocritus
Author: TheocritusPublisher: Carcanet Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
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. Book jacket.
The Idylls of Theocritus and the Eclogues of Virgil
Author: TheocritusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Idylls of Theocritus
Author: TheocritusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alexandria (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The idylls and epigrams commonly attributed to Theocritus
Author: TheocritusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epigrams, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Idylls of Theocritus. Ed with Introduction and Notes
Author: TheocritusThe Poems of Theocritus
Author: Anna RistPublisher:
ISBN: 9780807897638
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the 19th century, Butler examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who sustained an American tradition of self-consciously progressive and co
A Translation of the Idylls of Theocritus
Author: R. C. TrevelyanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107432197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Originally published in 1947, this book contains the English translation of twenty eight idylls and twenty three epigrams originally attributed to Theocritus. Trevelyan begins each idyll with a short synopsis and a brief introduction concerning the history behind each poem and its influence in later Greek and Latin poetry. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Theocritus or English Classical reception.
