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

Name: Theocritus
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521574204
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ISBN: 9780521574204

by Theocritus

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

ISBN-10 052157420X

ISBN-13 9780521574204

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 4th, 1999

Print length 324 Pages

Weight 366 grams

Dimensions 17.10 x 20.40 x 1.30 cms

Product Classification: Ancient Greece Ancient (Classical) Greek Literary essays Essays

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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. It makes a major contribution to the understanding of pastoral poetry.

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.

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