Theocritus Moschus Bion Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Essays And Literary Reference

The Father Of Pastoral Poetry And His Hellenistic Heirs Theocritus (Early Third Century Bc) Born In Syracuse Also Active On Cos At Alexandria Was Inventor Bucolic Genre Like Contemporary Callimachus A Learned Poet Who Followed Aesthetic Developed Generation Earlier By Philitas (Lcl 508) Refashioning Traditional Literary Forms Original Ways Through Tightly Organized Highly Polished Work Small Scale (Thus Generic Title Idylls: “Little Forms”) Although Composed Variety Genres Or Combinations Including Encomium Epigram Hymn Mime Epyllion He Is Best Known For Poems Set Countryside Mostly Dialogues Song-Contests That Combine Lyric Tone With Epic Meter Doric Dialect Native Sicily To Create An Idealized Evocatively Described Landscape Whose Lovelorn Inhabitants Presided Over Nymphs Pan Priapus Use Song As Natural Mode Expression Second Members Greek Canon Moschus (Fl Mid Bc From Syracuse) Bion Some Fifty Years Later Phlossa Near Smyrna) Remained Vital Greco-Roman Antiquity Into Modern Era This Edition Together So-Called “Pattern Poems” Included Tradition Replaces Loeb Classical Library J M Edmonds (1912) Using Critical Texts Gow (1952) Gallavotti (1993) Base Providing Fresh Translation Ample Annotation Σελίδες: 624 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0601 Διαστάσεις: 10 8X10 8Cm