Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction

by Mark Payne

Book Overview

The bucolic Idylls of Theocritus are the first literature to invent a fully fictional world that is not an image of reality but an alternative to it. It is thereby distinguished from the other Idylls... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521124298
• ISBN13: 9780521124294
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"