Theocritus, Moschus, Bion / edited and translated by Neil Hopkinson.

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 generation earlier by Philitas of Cos (LCL 508), of refashi...

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Uniform Title:	Loeb classical library ; 28.
Main Authors:	Theocritus (Author) Bion, of Phlossa near Smyrna (Author) Moschus (Author)
Other Authors:	Hopkinson, Neil, 1957-2021 (Editor, Translator)
Language:	English Greek, Modern (1453-)
Language of the Original:	Greek, Modern (1453-)
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Series:	Loeb classical library ; 28.
Subjects:	Theocritus > Translations into English. Greek poetry, Hellenistic > Translations into English. Pastoral poetry, Greek > Translations into English. Country life > Greece > Poetry. Country life. Greek poetry, Hellenistic. Pastoral poetry, Greek. Poetry. Translations.
Genre:	Translations into English. Poetry. Translations.
Physical Description:	xxvi, 590 pages ; 17 cm.
Format:	Book