Theocritus, Moschus, Bion / edited and translated by Neil Hopkinson.
Theocritus, Moschus, Bion / edited and translated by Neil Hopkinson.
About this item
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Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press, 2015.
Call Numbers
G 2015/2588
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MMS ID
Language
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- English
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
(Language of original)Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
xxvi, 590 pages ; 17 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Theocritus: Testimonia ; Idylls ; Fragments ; Epigrams -- Moschus: Testimonia ; Eros the runaway ; Europa ; Lament for Bion ; Megara ; Fragments -- Bion: Testimonia ; Lament for Adonis ; Wedding song of Achilles and Deidamia ; Fragments -- Adonis dead -- Bucolic fragment (P. Rainer 29801) -- Pattern...
Publication information
Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press, 2015.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2015.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- Country life
- Greek poetry, Hellenistic
- Pastoral poetry, Greek
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"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 refashioning traditional literary forms in original ways...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Theocritus, Moschus, Bion / edited and translated by Neil Hopkinson.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Bion, of Phlossa near Smyrna. author.
Moschus, author.
Theocritus. Poems. Selections. English.
Theocritus. Poems. Selections.
Bion of Phlossa near Smyrna. Poems. Selections. English.
Bion of Phlossa near Smyrna. Poems. Selections.
Moschus. Poems. Selections. English.
Moschus. Poems. Selections.
Hopkinson, Neil, 1957-2021, editor, translator.
Notes
General note
Loeb classical library ; LCL 28.
A previous edition of this volume of Loeb classical library, translated by J.M. Edmonds, was published in 1928 and 1996 under the title: The Greek bucolic poets.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
Texts in Greek with English translations on facing pages; introduction in English.
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©2015.
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G 2015/2588
Record Identifier
74VK7AkOKDpZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK7AkOKDpZ
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ISBN
0674996445
9780674996441
DDC
881.0108
MMS ID
991022899439702626
