Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
• ©2015

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Theocritus
• Bion, of Phlossa near Smyrna
• Moschus
• Theocritus.
• Bion, of Phlossa near Smyrna.
• Moschus.
• Hopkinson, Neil, 1957-2021

Description

xxvi, 590 pages; 17 cm.

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 through tightly organized and highly polished work on a small scale (thus the traditional generic title Idylls: "little forms"). Although Theocritus composed in a variety of genres or generic combinations, including encomium, epigram, hymn, mime, and epyllion, he is best known for the poems set in the countryside, mostly dialogues or song-contests, that combine lyric tone with epic meter and the Doric dialect of his native Sicily to create an idealized and evocatively described pastoral landscape, whose lovelorn inhabitants, presided over by the Nymphs, Pan, and Priapus, use song as a natural mode of expression. The bucolic/pastoral genre was developed by the second and third members of the Greek bucolic canon, Moschus (fl. mid second century BCE, also from Syracuse) and Bion (fl. some fifty years later, from Phlossa near Smyrna), and remained vital through Greco-Roman antiquity and into the modern era."-- Publisher description.

Series Statement

Loeb classical library ; LCL 28

Uniform Title

Loeb classical library ; 28.

Alternative Title

• Moschus
• Bion

Subjects

• Country life
• Greek poetry, Hellenistic
• Theocritus
• Pastoral poetry, Greek > Translations into English
• Translations
• Country life > Greece > Poetry > Early works to 1800
• Greek poetry, Hellenistic > Translations into English
• Theocritus > Translations into English
• Poetry
• Greece

Genre/Form

• Poetry.
• Translations.

Note

• 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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages xxi-xxvi) and index.

Language (note)

• Texts in Greek with English translations on facing pages; introduction in English.

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 poems (Technopaegnia).

Call Number

PA3611

ISBN

• 9780674996441
• 0674996445

LCCN

2014947085

OCLC

909580593

Title

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

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Loeb classical library ; LCL 28

Loeb classical library ; 28.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxi-xxvi) and index.

Language

Texts in Greek with English translations on facing pages; introduction in English.

Added Author

Theocritus, author.

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.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PA3611 .T43