Theocritus: A Selection: Idylls 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 13

by Theocritus

This is the first full-scale commentary on poems by Theocritus since Gow's edition of 1950, and the first to exploit the recent revolution in the study of Hellenistic and Roman poetry; the poems included in this volume (Idylls 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 13) are principally the bucolic poems which, through their influence on Virgil, established the Western pastoral tradition. The focus of the commentary is literary - both on how Theocritus exploited...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052157420X
• ISBN13: 9780521574204
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 8.0"