LEADER 03953oam 22005654 450 001 996217622703316 005 20230807193227.0 010 $a0-674-99644-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000477788 035 $a(OCoLC)910938742 035 $a(MaCbHUP)hup0001128 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000477788 100 $a20150514d2015 my p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTheocritus$eMoschus ; Bion /$fedited and translated by Neil Hopkinson 205 $aNew edition 210 1$aCambridge, MA :$cHarvard University Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aLoeb Classical Library ; $v28 320 $aIncludes bibliography and index. 327 $aTheocritus: Testimonia ; Idylls ; Fragments ; Epigrams -- Moschus: Testimonia ; Eros the runaway ; Europa ; Lament for Bion ; Megara ; Fragments -- Bion: Testimonia ; Lament for Adonis ; Wedding song of Achilles and Deidamia ; Fragments -- Adonis dead -- Bucolic fragment (P. Rainer 29801) -- Pattern poems (Technopaegnia). 330 $aTheocritus (early third century BCE) was the inventor of the bucolic genre, also known as pastoral. The present edition of his work, along with that of his successors Moschus (fl. mid-second century BCE) and Bion (fl. around 100 BCE), replaces the earlier Loeb Classical Library volume of Greek Bucolic Poets by J. M. Edmonds (1912).$bTheocritus (early third century BCE), born in Syracuse and also active on Cos and at Alexandria, was the inventor of the bucolic genre. Like his contemporary Callimachus, Theocritus was a learned poet who followed the aesthetic, developed a generation earlier by Philitas of Cos (LCL 508), of refashioning traditional literary forms in original ways through tightly organized and highly polished work on a small scale (thus the traditional generic title Idylls: "little forms"). Although Theocritus composed in a variety of genres or generic combinations, including encomium, epigram, hymn, mime, and epyllion, he is best known for the poems set in the countryside, mostly dialogues or song-contests, that combine lyric tone with epic meter and the Doric dialect of his native Sicily to create an idealized and evocatively described pastoral landscape, whose lovelorn inhabitants, presided over by the Nymphs, Pan, and Priapus, use song as a natural mode of expression. The bucolic/pastoral genre was developed by the second and third members of the Greek bucolic canon, Moschus (fl. mid second century BCE, also from Syracuse) and Bion (fl. some fifty years later, from Phlossa near Smyrna), and remained vital through Greco-Roman antiquity and into the modern era. This edition of Theocritus, Moschus, and Bion, together with the so-called "pattern poems" included in the bucolic tradition, replaces the earlier Loeb Classical Library edition by J. M. Edmonds (1912), using the critical texts of Gow (1952) and Gallavotti (1993) as a base and providing a fresh translation with ample annotation. 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 676 $a881.01 700 $aTheocritus$05766 702 $aMoschus 702 $aBion$cof Phlossa near Smyrna, 702 $aHopkinson$b Neil$f1957- 801 0$bMaCbHUP 801 2$bTLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996217622703316 996 $aTheocritus$972627 997 $aUNISA