GREEK BUCOLIC POETS by J. M. Edmonds (Trans) ( 9780674990319 )

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GREEK BUCOLIC POETS

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ISBN 10:

0674990315

ISBN 13:

9780674990319

Publisher:

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Edition:

Revised edition

Series:

Loeb Classical Library

Pages:

555

Translated from:

Greek, modern (1453-)

Description:

Theocritus (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.

Synopsis:

Theocritus (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.

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