IdyllsOxford University Press, 2003 - 114 páginas 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 of song and love are the foundational poems of the western pastoral tradition. They were the principal model for Virgil in the Eclogues and their influence can be seen in the work of Petrarch and Milton. Although it is the pastoral poems for which he is chiefly famous, Theocritus also wrote hymns to the gods, brilliant mime depictions of everyday life, short narrative epics, epigrams, and encomia of the powerful. The great variety of his poems illustrates the rich and flourishing poetic culture of what was a golden age of Greek poetry. Based on the original Greek text, this accurate and fluent translation is the only edition of the complete Idylls currently in print. It includes an accessible introduction by Richard Hunter that describes what is known of Theocritus, the poetic tradition and Theocritus' innovations and what exactly is meant by "bucolic" poetry. |
Contenido
Thyrsis Lament for Daphnis 17 | 1 |
The Sorceress | 7 |
The Serenade | 13 |
The Two Herdsmen | 15 |
Goatherd and Shepherd | 18 |
Damoetas and Daphnis | 23 |
The Harvest Festival | 25 |
The Reapers | 30 |
The Women at the Festival | 44 |
The Graces | 50 |
In Praise of Ptolemy | 54 |
The Marriage Song for Helen | 59 |
The Dioscuri | 61 |
The Childhood of Heracles | 71 |
The Bacchantes | 77 |
The Distaff | 79 |
The Cyclops Serenade 333 | 33 |
The Beloved | 36 |
The Story of Hylas | 38 |
Aeschinas and Thyonichus | 41 |
To a Boy | 81 |
To Another Boy | 83 |
Explanatory Notes by Richard Hunter | 85 |
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Achilles Adonis AESCHINAS Alcmena Alexandria Amphitryon Amycus Aphrodite Apollo Apollonius Apollonius of Rhodes apples Argos Athens BATTUS beautiful begin the herdsman's Berenice bring BUCAEUS bucolic Callimachus cicadas Coan COMATAS CORYDON cowherd Croton cult Cyclops Cypris Damoetas Daphnis daughter of Zeus dear Delphis Demeter Dionysus Dioscuri draw my lover epic eyes famous Farewell father festival Fleece girl goat goatherd goddess gods Golden GORGO Hellenistic Hera Heracles herdsman's song heroes Hieron Homeric Hymn honour Hylas Idyll 17 Idyll 22 Iliad kisses LACON lady Moon literature look lover home Lycidas Lynceus lyric Magic wheel milk MILON Morson mother mountain Muses Nicias Nymphs Odyssey Oxford World's Classics pastoral Pentheus Philadelphus Philinus Pindar pipe poem poet poetic Polydeuces Polyphemus PRAXINOA Ptolemy Ptolemy Philadelphus river rustic shepherd Sicily Simaetha Simichidas sing singer sleep spring sweet Syracuse Theocritean Theocritus THYONICHUS Thyrsis traditions Troy Tyndareus verses wine women Zeus