THEOCRITUS

thēŏkˈrĭtəs, fl. c.270 b.c., Hellenistic Greek poet, b. Syracuse. The history of the pastoral begins with him, and in him the form seems to have reached its height. His poetic style is finished and at times artificial, but the bucolic characters in his idyls seem alive. Theocritus has been widely imitated (e.g., by such poets as Vergil and Spenser).

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The Poems of Theocritus
Book by Anna Rist; University of North Carolina Press, 1978
Subjects: Country Life--Mediterranean Region--Poetry, Pastoral Poetry, Greek--Translations Into English, Theocritus--Translations Into English
...Charles. Simichidas Modesty: Theocritus, Idyll 7, 44. Ameri- can Journal...Philology 95 1974 :128-36. . Theocritus Seventh Idyll and Lycidas. Wiener...20-76. X Cairns, Francis. Theocritus Idyll x. Hermes 98 1970 :38...
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Theocritus in English Literature
Book by Robert Thomas Kerlin; J. P. Bell Company, 1910
Subjects: Literature, Comparative--English And Greek, Literature, Comparative--Greek And English, Megara (Poem), Megara (Poem)--Bibliography, Megara (Poem)--Influence
...Chambers Encyclopaoedia .--Art. "Theocritus." By John Masson. Comparison with Keats and Burns. The power of Theocritus is seen in his influence over other...Universal Cyclopoedia .--Art. "Theocritus." By Basil L. Gildersleeve...
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Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus
Book by A. Lang; Macmillan, 1889
Subjects: Greek Poetry--Translations Into English, Pastoral Poetry, Greek--Translations Into English
LIFE OF THEOCRITUS From Suidas THEOCRITUS, the Chian. But there is another Theocritus, the son of Praxagoras and Philinna see Epigram XXIII , or as some say of Simichus. This is plainly derived from the assumed name Simichidas in Idyl VII...
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Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus
Book by Richard Hunter, Theocritus; University of California Press, 2003
Subjects: Ptolemy--Ii Philadelphus--King Of Egypt--Poetry
CONVENTIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS T. = Theocritus throughout. Except where it is relevant...on v. 100. The following editions of Theocritus are cited by author only: A. S. F. Gow, Theocritus, 2d ed., 2 vols. Cambridge 1952 C...
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Greek Mythography in the Roman World
Book by Alan Cameron; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Latin Literature--Greek Influences, Latin Literature--History And Criticism, Mythology, Greek, In Literature, Mythology, Greek--Historiography, Rome--Civilization--Greek Influences
...plant hippomartes, obviously a slip for Theocritus (2.48), no doubt an understandable...note that Ps-Probus preserves the Theocritus that must have stood in an earlier stage...tradition. The DS note adds Theophrastus to Theocritus. The source of this material is undoubtedly...
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Chapter 3: Student Texts+b1:b9
Journal article by Paul Botley; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 100, 2010
Subjects: Grammar, Learning
...version was first printed in the Aldine Theocritus of 1496, a volume that also contained...was first printed in Milan alongside Theocritus around 1480 as one of the texts of Bonaccorsos...used in the classroom before 1530. THEOCRITUS In addition to Hesiods Works and Days...
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The Lexicographer as Hero: Samuel Johnson and Henri Estienne
Journal article by John Considine; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 79, 2000
Subjects: Estienne, Henri--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Johnson, Samuel--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Lexicographers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Lexicography--History
...Syracusanus poeta," in other words to Theocritus. (43) Estienne knew Theocritus well, having edited him in the Poetae Graeci...universities of north-western Europe quotes Theocritus again, and again expects that the reader...
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"A Very Sinister Book": The Sun Also Rises as Critique of Pastoral
Journal article by David Savola; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 26, 2006
Subjects: Hemingway, Ernest--Works, Novels--Criticism and interpretation, The Sun Also Rises (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...extensive allusions to the Idylls of Theocritus and the Eclogues of Virgil, the two...distant past, or out of the Idylls of Theocritus. Significantly, the old man is turned...number of connections to the Idylls of Theocritus and the Eclogues of Virgil. Walking...
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Vexilla Regis Prodeunt:(1) Myth and Allusion in out of Ireland
Journal article by Noel Henricksen; Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 20, 2001
Subjects: Characters and characteristics in literature--Analysis, Literature--Technique, Out of Ireland (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Political prisoners--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...excerpts from Aeschylus Prometheus Bound, Theocritus Idylls and Dantes Inferno. From these...world -- the impingement of war on Theocritus Sicily in Idyll 16, for example, or...polarity of rustic and urban, implicit in Theocritus, explicit in Virgil (Gutzwiller 181...
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The Witches of Durer and Hans Baldung Grien [*
Journal article by Margaret A. Sullivan; Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: Art and history--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Durer, Albrecht--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Witchcraft in art--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Witches--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...drips from the pregnant mare." 58 Theocritus, in his second Idyll describes various...interested in the witches described by Theocritus in his Idylls and Durer illustrated Pirckheimers copy of Theocritus. 97 Molitors De Lamiis was also available...
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Alexandria the Great: On the Mediterranean at the Western Edge of the Nile Delta Stands the Most Important and Enduring of All the Many Cities Founded by Alexander. Though Much of Its Material Past Has Been Destroyed or Lies Underwater, Alexandria's Reputation as the Intellectual Powerhouse of the Classical World, Fusing Greek, Egyptian and Roman Culture, Lives On
Magazine article by Paul Cartledge; History Today, Vol. 59, October 2009
Subjects: Alexander the Great--History, Alexandria, Egypt (City)--Appreciation, Alexandria, Egypt (City)--History, Greek history, to 330 (Ancient period)
...Callimachus (c. 310-240 BC), chief librarian and, like Eratosthenes, originally from Cyrene in modern Libya; and Theocritus (c. 300-260 BC), a pastoral poet from Syracuse, who composed at the Alexandrian court in the 270s BC under Ptolemy...
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Untimely Meditations
Magazine article by Edward W. Said; The Nation, Vol. 277, September 1, 2003
...Opus 96, which moves toward "a restoration of the full range of classical pastoral experience that Virgil, Bion, and Theocritus had known, including its Elegiac and Bacchic strains, thereby rescuing musical pastoral from its ongoing slide into a picturesque...
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The Big Roundup: John Lomax Roamed the West, Collecting Classic Songs from the Cowboy Era
Magazine article by Ted Gioia; American Scholar, Vol. 74, Spring 2005
Subjects: American folk music--Research, Folk music, American--Research, Lomax, John A.--Research
...The American cowboys authentic music shows strong affinities to shepherds songs--a tradition dating back at least to Theocritus, Virgil, and, indeed, King David that continues in many parts of the world today. This should come as no surprise: the...
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Georgics on My Mind
Magazine article by Gerald Russello; New Criterion, Vol. 23, June 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Virgil's Georgics (Book)--Book reviews
...also demonstrate his deep knowledge of Greek models. The Eclogues, an earlier collection of ten short pastoral poems, has Theocritus as a model, and of course the Aeneid takes up where Homer ended. Closer to home were the Roman treatises on agriculture...
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The Jacobite Poets of Richmond
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 291, Autumn 2009
Subjects: Henry Esmond (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Historical novels--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Works, Poets--Portrayals, Thackeray, William Makepeace--Criticism and interpretation, Thackeray, William Makepeace--Works
...countryside is no Arcadia. Unfortunately, the humour does not extend much beyond finding unpoetic counterparts for situations in Theocritus and Virgil. Although a countryman from Barnstaple, his best poetry was urban, as in Trivia, or the Art of Walking the...
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Lee Closes on 50th Win with Double; RACING: Today's News and Views
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), November 4, 2005
...century for the season with a 19-1 plus double on Vicario and Theocritus at Haydock yesterday. The Grand National-winning jockey...a fence and he was right." Lees double was teed up when Theocritus took advantage of a favourable handicap mark to land the odds...
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CONQUEST'S SHOCK & AWE; Casual Surprise for Washington
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 12, 2008
...Leopardstown treble for Dermot Weld and Pat Smullen, initiated by Theocritus in the 10-furlong maiden and complete by Caribbean Sunset...wontheDerby Trial for the stable on this card, a son of his Theocritus initiated the Weld/Smullen double when landing the ten...
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Gowran Goes to Plan; OBrien: Hopes Rest on Plan at Gowran
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 5, 2008
...Plan may successfully cope with both Allicansayis Wow and Theocritus, whoappear to be the main threats and carry the hopes of...the Group Three Blue WindStakes at Naas last time, while Theocritus met one too good for him, the moreexperienced The Fist Of...
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Fine Lines; Drawings, Prints and Books Unveiled at National Gallery
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 17, 2008
...Pictograph." The earliest example is Albrecht Durers 1490s pastoral illustration in a book of "Idylls" by Greek poet Theocritus. One of the pictured shepherds is thought to be a self-portrait. Variations on the watercolor also abound. A more opaque...
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Aunt Nicola Ready to Show Her Goodwood Best This Time Out
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), August 29, 2009
Subjects: Horse racing, Horse-racing
...Frills, 3.40 Gee Gina, 4.15 Shekan Star, 4.50 Salamon GOODWOOD: 2.10 AUNT NICOLA (NAP), 2.45 Nashmiah, 3.20 Theocritus, 3.55 Cat Junior, 4.30 Negotiation, 5.05 Marching Time, 5.40 Ghost Dancer YARMOUTH: 2.20 Subtefuge, 2.55...
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encyclopedia articles on: Theocritus  - 10 results

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Theocritus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
THEOCRITUS theok rit s, fl. c.270 b.c., Hellenistic Greek poet, b. Syracuse...times artificial, but the bucolic characters in his idyls seem alive. Theocritus has been widely imitated (e.g., by such poets as Vergil and Spenser...
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Pastoral
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...record was written by the Greek poet Theocritus in the 3d cent. b.c. It is in his...and Amaryllis are first encountered. Theocritus was followed by Bion and Moschus in...employed the pastoral conventions of Theocritus and Vergil. Outstanding exceptions...
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Hellenistic Civilization
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...actually there was a great richness in some of the writing. Not only were there outstanding poets such as Callimachus and Theocritus but there were also new forms that emerged, such as the complicated but frequently charming romances and the works of Lucian...
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Idyl
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...intended as little selections in the style of such longer poems as elegies or epics. There are 10 famous idyls by the Greek Theocritus , and, since some of them dealt with pastoral or rural scenes, the term idyl came to be restricted to gently flowing, artistic...
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Bion
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BION bi n, fl. 2d cent.? b.c., Greek bucolic poet, an imitator of Theocritus, b. Phlossa, near Smyrna. Only fragments of his work survive. The Lament for Adonis, attributed to him, was the model for...
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