Theocritus: A Selection

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521574204
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book Theocritus: A Selection written by Theocritus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Select poems

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Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780865162044
Total Pages : 408 pages
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Download or read book Select poems written by Theocritus and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of the poems of Theocritus illustrates his creative genius and rare powers of observation. Dover's introduction and notes offer insights into both the writing and the life and times of the poet.

Theocritus' Pastoral Analogies

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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299129446
Total Pages : 322 pages
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Book Synopsis Theocritus' Pastoral Analogies by : Kathryn J. Gutzwiller

Download or read book Theocritus' Pastoral Analogies written by Kathryn J. Gutzwiller and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Brill's Companion to Theocritus

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004466711
Total Pages : 852 pages
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Sixteen Select Idyls of Theocritus, With Engl. Notes by D.B. Hickie

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Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781376582567
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book Sixteen Select Idyls of Theocritus, With Engl. Notes by D.B. Hickie written by Theocritus and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

A Selection from the Remains of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus

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Total Pages : 316 pages
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The Greek Bucolic Poets

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107480345
Total Pages : 187 pages
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Download or read book The Greek Bucolic Poets written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Sixteen select idyls of Theocritus, with Engl. notes by D.B. Hickie

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Total Pages : 192 pages
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Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139464302
Total Pages : 25 pages
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Book Synopsis Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction by : Mark Payne

Download or read book Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction written by Mark Payne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520235606
Total Pages : 243 pages
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Download or read book Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus written by Theocritus and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-11-10 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In particular, the book explores the subtle and complex links among Theocritus's poem, modes of praise drawn from both Greek and Egyptian traditions, and the subsequent flowering of Latin poetry in the Augustan age."

Theocritus. Moschus. Bion

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Publisher : Loeb Classical Library
ISBN 13 : 9780674996441
Total Pages : 550 pages
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Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400856892
Total Pages : 361 pages
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Download or read book Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral written by Charles Segal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected in this volume are fifteen essays, previously published in a wide variety of journals, on the pastoral poetry of Theocritus and Virgil. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Epyllion

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429574703
Total Pages : 182 pages
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Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197552994
Total Pages : 281 pages
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A Hellenistic Anthology

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521314251
Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book A Hellenistic Anthology written by Neil Hopkinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-02-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide representative range of poetry, including hymns, didactic verse, pastoral poetry, epigrams and epics is supplemented by a cultural and historical introduction and commentary clarifying problems of language and text.

Greek Pastoral Poetry

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Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
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The Idylls of Theocritus

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Publisher : Books for Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
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