Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry

by Richard L. Hunter and Richard Hunter

Book Overview

The poems of Theocritus are our best witness to a brilliant poetic culture that flourished in the first half of the third century BC. This book considers the context from which these poems grew and, in particular, the manner in which they engage with and recreate the poetic forms of the Greek archaic age. The focus is not on the familiar bucolic poems of Theocritus, but on the hymns, mimes and erotic poems of the second half of the corpus. Recent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521035260
• ISBN13: 9780521035262
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"