The Poems of Theocritus

Table of contents

• The Poems of Theocritus *
• The Poems of Theocritus *
• Contents *
• Translator's Preface ix
• General Introduction *
• The Idylls *
• Idyll I 23
• Thyrsis or the Song 28
• Idyll II 34
• The Spellbinders 39
• Idyll III 46
• The Goatherd's Serenade 49
• Idyll IV 52
• Battus 56
• Idyll V 61
• The Shepherd and the Goatherd 65
• Idyll VI 75
• Damoetas and Daphnis 79
• Idyll VII 81
• The Harvest Home 90
• Idyll X 95
• The Day Labourers 98
• Idyll XI 101
• The Cyclops 106
• Idyll XII 109
• To the Harkener 113
• Idyll XIII 115
• Hylas 120
• Idyll XIV 123
• Aeschinas and Thyonichus 128
• Idyll XV 132
• The Devotees of Adonis 136
• Idyll XVI 143
• The Graces 148
• Idyll XVII 152
• An Encomium 155
• Idyll XVIII 160
• Epithalamium for Helen 164
• Idyll XXII 166
• The Heavenly Twins 171
• Idyll XXIV 180
• Baby Heracles 186
• Idyll XXVI 191
• The Bacchants 197
• Idyll XXVIII 199
• The Distaff 200
• Idylls XXIX & XXX 202
• Lines to a Boy, I 203
• Lines to a Boy, II 204
• Fragment of Berenice Epigrams *
• Fragment of Berenice 209
• Epigrams 210
• Appendix 221
• Idyll VIII 226
• Idyll IX 230
• Idyll XXV 232
• Bibliography 241
• Index 247
• A Note on the Author *

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