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Works by Theocritus at Project Gutenberg; Works by or about Theocritus at the Internet Archive; An ancient life of Theocritus, from the scholia; Theocritus, Bion et Moschus graece et latine. Accedunt virorum doctorum animadversiones scholia, indices, T. Kiessling (ed.), Londini, sumtibus Whittaker, Treacher, et Arnot, 1829, vol. 1 pp. 1-440.
Creech's 1682 translation of Lucretius vied in popularity with John Dryden's Virgil and Alexander Pope's Homer. A second edition appeared in the following year with extra commendatory verses in Latin and English, some of which bore the names of Nahum Tate, Thomas Otway, Aphra Behn, Richard Duke, and Edmund Waller; and when Dryden published his translations from Theocritus, Lucretius, and ...
Theocritus: A Selection. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-57420-X. Van Sickle, John B. (2004). The Design of Virgil's Bucolics. Duckworth. ISBN 1-85399-676-9. Van Sickle, John B. (2011). Virgil's Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues in English Verse. Framed by Cues for Reading Out-Loud and Clues for Threading Texts and Themes. Johns Hopkins ...
Undated, only Theocritus' first 18 idylls are contained in this edition. [2] A wider arrange of idylls appeared in the 1495–1496 Aldine Theocritus which had idylls I-XXIII. [11] A further amount of yet unpublished idylls were printed in Rome together with their old scholia by Zacharias Calliergis in his 1516 edition of Theocritus. [12]
Corydon features in the fourth Idyll of the Syracusan poet Theocritus (c. 300 – c. 250 BC), where he is found herding some cows belonging to a certain Aegon. The name was used by the Latin poets Siculus and, more significantly, Virgil.
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3]
Theocritus acknowledges his indebtedness to the Ionian lyrists and elegists by using their dialect. [1] According to J. M. Edmonds , the passage rendered here in verse contains what at first sight looks like a mere display of learning, but has simply this intention: 'Our love will be famous among so remote a posterity that the very words for it ...
Specimens of a Translation of Theocritus. 1879. This was an advance issue of extracts from Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English prose; XXXII Ballades in Blue China (1880) Oxford. Brief historical & descriptive notes (1880). The 1915 edition of this work was illustrated by painter George Francis Carline. [15] 'Theocritus Bion and ...