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This is an annotated translation of the Greek poems of Theocritus of Syracuse (first half of the 3rd century BC), the inventor of "bucolic" or "pastoral" poetry, the principal model for Virgil in the Eclogues, and hence a major figure in the literary traditions which antiquity bequeathed to Western literature. Although it is the pastoral poems for which he is best known, Theocritus' oeuvre also includes hymns to the gods, mime depictions of everyday life and encomia of the great, such as Ptolemy Philadelphus.
This is an annotated translation of the Greek poems of Theocritus of Syracuse (first half of the 3rd century BC), the inventor of "bucolic" or "pastoral" poetry, the principal model for Virgil in the Eclogues, and hence a major figure in the literary traditions which antiquity bequeathed to Western literature. Although it is the pastoral poems for which he is best known, Theocritus' oeuvre also includes hymns to the gods, mime depictions of everyday life and encomia of the great, such as Ptolemy Philadelphus.
