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An idyll (/ ˈ aɪ d ɪ l /, UK also / ˈ ɪ d ɪ l /; from Greek εἰδύλλιον (eidullion) 'short poem'; occasionally spelled idyl in American English) [1] [2] [3] is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls (Εἰδύλλια). Unlike Homer, Theocritus did not engage ...
Little is known of Theocritus beyond what can be inferred from his writings. We must, however, handle these with some caution, since some of the poems (Idylls; Εἰδύλλια) commonly attributed to him have little claim to authenticity.
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Chalcedony scaraboid seal stone: 4th cent. BC. Fox and vine. A shepherd and a goatherd meet in the pastures one noontide and compliment each other upon their piping. [1] The shepherd, Thyrsis by name, is persuaded by the other—for a cup which he describes but does not at first show—to sing him The Affliction of Daphnis, a ballad which tells how the legendary cowherd, friend not only of ...
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Idyll VII, also called θαλύσια ('Harvest Home'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. [1] [2] The dramatic persona, a poet, making his way through the noonday heat, with two friends, to a harvest feast, meets the goatherd, Lycidas. [3]
Hermann and Dorothea is an epic poem, an idyll, written by German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe between 1796 and 1797, and was to some extent suggested by Johann Heinrich Voss's Luise, an idyll in hexameters, which was first published in 1782–1784.