Idylls by Theocritus
Idylls

Theocritus

Idylls

Theocritus

114 pages first pub -270 (editions)

fiction classics poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A key figure in the development of Western literature, the Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse, was the inventor of "bucolic" or pastoral poetry in the first half of the third century BC. These vignettes of country life, which center on competitions...

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