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Theocritus: A Selection: Idylls 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 13

By P. E. Easterling , Richard L. Hunter

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
052157420X, 9780521574204
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6338571 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Pages
308\160
Time added
2020-05-15 19:37:09

Description

This volume contains the text of eight poems by the third-century BC Greek poet Theocritus, together with an introduction and extensive commentary. This is the first full-scale commentary on the work of Theocritus since Gow's edition of 1950, and is the first to exploit the recent revolution in the study of Hellenistic and Roman poetry. It offers new readings of all the poems, which show both how Theocritus differs from subsequent pastoral poetry but also how his poems, through their influence on Virgil, established the Western pastoral tradition.

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