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Idylls (Oxford World's Classics)
Idylls - Oxford World's Classics
Author: Theocritus
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 princi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780192839848
ISBN-10: 0192839845
Publication Date: 7/15/2003
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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