Theocritus. Moschus. Bion by Theocritus, Bion, Moschus

Theocritus. Moschus. Bion

Theocritus, Bion, Moschus

550 pages first pub -300 (editions)

fiction classics poetry adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
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Theocritus (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 genera...

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