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3rd-century BC Greek poet
Theocritus was a Greek poet from Sicily, Magna Graecia, and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: TheocritusA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Pastoral between Words and Things: Theocritus, Ekphrasis, and OntologyInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Theocritus and the Invention of FictionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Theocritus' seventhIdyll, Philetas and LongusCited 27 times
- Go sideways: MoschusA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Bion of SmyrnaA closely related topic
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Theocritus' seventhIdyll, Philetas and Longus
Current Trends in the Study of Hellenic Myth in Early Third-Century. Alexandrian Poetry: The Case of Theocritus
Theocritus and the Development of the Conception of Bucolic Genre
Was Theocritus A Botanist?
Geography and the Literary Tradition in Theocritus 7
The "Performative Future" in Three Hellenistic Incantations and Theocritus' Second Idyll
A Theophany in Theocritus
Love magic and purification in Sophron, PSI 1214a, and Theocritus’ Pharmakeutria
🆕 Influential since 2022
Pastoral between Words and Things: Theocritus, Ekphrasis, and Ontology
[Theocritus], Idyll 23: a stony aesthetic
Homeric ἴσκε(ν) (Od. 19.203; 22.31) and its Reception in Apollonius and Theocritus
Cypress by a cave: Erotic frustration, agon and death in Theocritus’ Idyll XI
Richard P. Martin: Christopher A. Faraone: Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus.
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Theocritus and the Invention of FictionMark Payne · 2007
Poetry and Myth in Ancient PastoralCharles Segal · 1981- 📕Reading VoicesJ. Andrew Foster · 2016
TheocritusTheocritus, A. S. F. Gow · 1950- 📕Bucoliques de ThéocriteAlain Blanchard · 2020
The green cabinetThomas G. Rosenmeyer · 1969- 📕Theocritus in English literatureRobert Thomas Kerlin · 1910
- 📕Representations of Women in Theocritus's IdyllsMarilyn Likosky · 2018
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🔗 Related topics
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- Idyll VII Idyll VII, also called θαλύσια ('Harvest Home'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The dramatic persona, a poet, making his…
- Idyll VIII Idyll VIII, also called Βουκολιασταί βʹ ('The Second Country Singing-Match'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The characters…
- Idyll XXVII Idyll XXVII, also titled Οαριστύς ('The Lovers' Talk'), is a bucolic poem traditionally attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus, but probably…
- Idyll II Idyll II, also called Φαρμακεύτριαι ('The Sorceresses'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus, usually categorised with Idylls XIV and…
- Idyll I Idyll I, sometimes called Θύρσις ('Thyrsis'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus which takes the form of a dialogue between…
- Idyll XVII Idyll XVII, also titled Εγκώμιον εις Πτολεμαίον ('The Panegyric of Ptolemy'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poem is a panegyric…