| #571383 in Books | imusti | 2008-10-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.00 x.50 x7.60l,.25 | File type: PDF | 144 pages | Oxford University Press USA||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Still applicable in today's world|By Dolly Domestic|So nice to enjoy pastoral poetry from 370 BC.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Peter Miller|Excellent translation that maintains the feeling of the Greek pastoral settings without sacrificing clarity in the English.|0 of 0 people found the foll|About the Author|Anthony Verity was Formerly Headmaster of Leeds Grammar School and Master at Dulwich College.
A key figure in the development of Western literature, the Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse, was the inventor of "bucolic" or pastoral poetry in the first half of the third century BC. These vignettes of country life, which center on competitions of song and love are the foundational poems of the western pastoral tradition. They were the principal model for Virgil in the Eclogues and their influence can be seen in the work of Petrarch and Milton. Although it is...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Idylls (Oxford World's Classics) | Theocritus. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
