The Idylliums of Theocritus
Author | : Theocritus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1767 |
Genre | : Pastoral poetry, Greek |
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Author | : Theocritus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1767 |
Genre | : Pastoral poetry, Greek |
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Author | : Theocritus |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1999-02-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780521574204 |
This is the first full-scale commentary on poems by Theocritus since Gow's edition of 1950, and the first to exploit the recent revolution in the study of Hellenistic and Roman poetry; the poems included in this volume (Idylls 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 13) are principally the bucolic poems which, through their influence on Virgil, established the Western pastoral tradition. The focus of the commentary is literary - both on how Theocritus exploited the classical heritage for a new type of poetry, and on what that poetry meant in the third century BC. The commentary, together with the introductory essays to each poem, makes a major contribution to the understanding of this extraordinary poetic form. The Introduction explores the meaning of 'bucolic', the presentation of a stylised countryside, the importance of eros in the bucolic world, and Theocritus' verbal and metrical style.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 852 |
Release | : 2021-08-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004466711 |
Brill's Companion to Theocritus offers an up-to-date guide to a thorough understanding of Theocritus’ literary output. Exploring his corpus from a variety of novel perspectives, it presents a detailed account of the intricacy of Theocritus’ poetic art.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2015-02-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107480345 |
Originally published in 1953, this book provides a series of English translations from ancient Greek bucolic poetry by Theocritus, Moschus and Bion. A detailed introduction is included, with information on each of the poets. Textual notes are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ancient Greek literature, literary criticism and bucolic poetry.
Author | : Theocritus |
Publisher | : Loeb Classical Library |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2015-01-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674996441 |
Theocritus (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).
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 916 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Author | : Mark Payne |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-12-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521124294 |
The bucolic Idylls of Theocritus are the first literature to invent a fully fictional world that is not an image of reality but an alternative to it. It is thereby distinguished from the other Idylls and from Hellenistic poetry as a whole. This book examines these poems in the light of ancient and modern conceptions of fictionality. It explores how access to this fictional world is mediated by form and how this world appears as an object of desire for the characters within it. The argument culminates in a fresh reading of Idyll 7, where Professor Payne discusses the encounter between author and fictional creation in the poem and its importance for the later pastoral tradition. Close readings of Theocritus, Callimachus, Hermesianax and the Lament for Bion are supplemented with parallels from modern contemporary fiction and an extended discussion of the heteronymic poetry of Fernando Pessoa.
Author | : Kathryn J. Gutzwiller |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780299129446 |
In a book as beautifully written as the poetry it celebrates, Kathryn Gutzwiller uses the famous Idylls of Theocritus to show us the formative processes at work in the creation of a literary genre--the pastoral--and how the very structure of a genre both shapes and limits judgments about it. Gutzwiller argues that Theocritus' position as first pastoralist has haunted critical assessments of him. Was he merely a beginner, whose simple descriptions of country life were reworked by Vergil into poems of imagination and tender feeling? Or was he a genius of great creative ability, who first found the way to encapsulate in humble detail a metaphysical vision of man's emotional core? Examining Theocritus from the point of view of "beginnings," Gutzwiller succeeds in placing him both within his native Greek intellectual tradition and within the tradition of critical commentary on pastoral. As she points out, "beginnings are hard to pin down . . . the thing begun did not exist before and yet its composite parts were already somewhere in existence." Gutzwiller provides an analysis of the herdsman figure in pre-Hellenistic Greek literature, showing that the simple shepherd or goatherd had long been used as a figure of analogy for characters of higher rank. Theocritus was the first poet to focus on the shepherd himself and bring the analogies down into the pastoral world. Through her careful analyses of the seven pastoral Idylls, Gutzwiller demonstrates that in turning the focus on the shepherd Theocritus created a group of literary works with an inner structure so unique that later readers considered it a new genre. In her conclusion Gutzwiller explores subsequent controversies about the pastoral, from ancient to modern times, revealing how they continue to reflect the structural pattern that originated in Theocritus's poetry.
Author | : Princeton University. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
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