Greek Bucolic Poets: Theocritus. Bion. Moschus by Theocritus, Bion of Smyrna, J.M. Edmonds, Moschus

Greek Bucolic Poets: Theocritus. Bion. Moschus

Theocritus, Bion of Smyrna, J.M. Edmonds, Moschus

526 pages • first pub -300 (view editions)

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Theocritus (third century BCE) was the founder of bucolic poetry. The extant poems of Moschus (second century BCE) and Bion (probably second and first centuries BCE) are not really bucolic, but Bion s Lament for Adonis is floridly brilliant. Patte...

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