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Bucolic poem by Theocritus
Idyll IV, also titled Νομεῖς, is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poem is a conversation between a goatherd named Battus and his fellow goatherd Corydon, who is acting oxherd in place of a certain Aegon who has been persuaded by one Milon son of Lampriadas to go and compete in a boxing-match at Olympia. Corydon's temporary rise in rank gives occasion for some friendly banter, varied with bitter references to Milon's having supplanted Battus in the favours of Amaryllis. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Idyll IVA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Good food or industrial food: Discourses of the rural idyll and alternative food networksInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Les MisérablesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Rethinking the Rural IdyllCited 8 times
- Go sideways: Idyll VIIIA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Idyll IIIA closely related topic
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Rethinking the Rural Idyll
Llewellyn Park, suburban Idyll
Improvisational Idyll
Theocritus' Idyll 24
ΦΙΛΑΛΗΘΗΣ Zu Theokrit, Idyll IV
Electric Idyll
American Idyll
Idyll in Gelb
🆕 Influential since 2022
Good food or industrial food: Discourses of the rural idyll and alternative food networks
Constructing a virtual destination: Li Ziqi’s Chinese rural idyll on YouTube
Rural idyll in a global creative city: gentrification, cultural governance and creative placemaking
Negotiating for distance: the Chinese middle-class seeking alternative education in the idyll
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-19
📚 Books worth reading
Les MisérablesVictor Hugo · 1862
The complete works of Robert Browning Volume XVIRobert Browning, Daniel Karlin · 1800
Eine aegyptische KönigstochterGeorg Moritz Ebers · 1800
Herfsttij der MiddeleeuwenJohan Huizinga · 1919- 📕Les MisérablesVictor Hugo · 1862
The poetical works of Alfred Tennyson...Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1867
Oeuvres de Charles NodierCharles Nodier · 1832- 📕MiserablesVictor Hugo · 2010
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