LEADER 03809oam 22006014 450 001 996214857703316 005 20230213224035.0 035 $a(CKB)3820000000012066 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001417997 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11900810 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001417997 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11366224 035 $a(PQKB)10099298 035 $a(OCoLC)899735524 035 $a(MaCbHUP)hup0000128 035 $a(EXLCZ)993820000000012066 100 $a20141025d1912 my p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn|||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aGreek bucolic poets$eTheocritus ; Bion ; Moschus /$fwith an English translation by J.M. Edmonds 210 1$aCambridge, MA :$cHarvard University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aLoeb Classical Library ; $v28 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-99031-5 320 $aIncludes bibliography and index. 330 $aTheocritus (third century BCE) was the founder of bucolic poetry. The extant poems of Moschus (second century BCE) and Bion (probably second and first centuries BCE) are not really bucolic, but Bion's Lament for Adonis is floridly brilliant. Pattern poems are found in the Greek Anthology, a work of many centuries.$bTheocritus 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 Cos?) he spent the rest of his life. Most lovable of Greek versemakers, Theocritus was the founder of bucolic or pastoral poetry. Of his so-called "Idylls," "little forms" or pieces (not all are genuine), ten are about pastoral life real or idealised; several are small epics (three are hymns); two are beautiful "occasional" poems (one about a country walk, one to accompany a gift of a distaff for the wife of his friend Nicias); six are love-poems; several are mimes, striking pictures of common life; and three are specially expressive of his own feelings. The 24 "Epigrams" were apparently inscribed on works of art. Moschus of Syracuse, 2nd century BCE, came next. As a grammarian he wrote a (lost) work on Rhodian dialect. Though he was classed as bucolic, his extant poetry (mainly Runaway Love and the story of Europa) is not really pastoral, the Lament for Bion not being Moschus's work. Megara may be by Theocritus; but The Dead Adonis is much later. Bion of Phlossa near Smyrna lived in Sicily, probably late 2nd and early 1st century BCE. Most of the extant poems are not really bucolic, but Lament for Adonis is floridly brilliant. The so-called "Pattern-Poems," included in the bucolic tradition, are found also in the Greek Anthology. 606 $aGreek poetry$xTranslations into English 606 $aPastoral poetry, Greek 606 $aCountry life$3(OCoLC)881405$2fast 606 $aGreek poetry$3(OCoLC)947503$2fast 606 $aGreek poetry, Hellenistic$3(OCoLC)947510$2fast 606 $aPastoral poetry, Greek$3(OCoLC)1054648$2fast 607 $aGreece$2fast 615 0$aGreek poetry$xTranslations into English. 615 0$aPastoral poetry, Greek. 615 7$aCountry life 615 7$aGreek poetry 615 7$aGreek poetry, Hellenistic 615 7$aPastoral poetry, Greek 702 $aTheocritus 702 $aBion$cof Phlossa near Smyrna, 702 $aMoschus 702 $aEdmonds$b J. M.$g(John Maxwell), 801 0$bMaCbHUP 801 2$bTLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996214857703316 996 $aGreek bucolic poets$978700 997 $aUNISA