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

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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 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

Theocritus, Moschus, Bion

Authors: Theocritus, Bion, of Phlossa near Smyrna, Moschus
Published: Harvard University Press, 2015

Loeb Classical Library: 2015 (Loeb Classical Library)

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