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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 ...
Idyll XXI, also called Ἁλιεῖς ('The Fisherman'), is a poem traditionally attributed to the 3rd century BC Greek poet Theocritus. [1] After some verses addressed to Diophantus, a friend about whom nothing is known, the poet describes the toilsome life of two old fishermen. [ 2 ]
Idyll VI, otherwise known as Bucolic poem 6, was written by Theocritus in dactylic hexameter. [1] The exact date of its composition is unknown. It references characters that have appeared in other works of literature such as Homer 's Odyssey , Ovid 's Metamorphoses , and Theocritus' Idyll XI .
Idyll XVIII, also titled Ἑλένης Ἐπιθάλαμιος ('The Epithalamy of Helen'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. [1] The poem includes a re-creation of the epithalamium sung by a choir of maidens at the marriage of Helen and Menelaus of Sparta. [2] The idea is said to have been borrowed from an old poem by ...
Idyll XXVII, also titled Οαριστύς ('The Lovers' Talk'), is a bucolic poem traditionally attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus, but probably by a later imitator. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The poem tells how the cowherd Daphnis woos a country lass (probably called Αcrotime).
Idyll XX, also called Βουκολίσκος ('The Young Countryman'), is a bucolic poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd century BC Greek poet Theocritus. [1] A neatherd , chafing because a city woman disdains him, protests that he is handsome, that Gods have been known to make love to country-folk, and that she deserves no lover at all.
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Idyll XVI, also called Χάριτες ('The Charities') or Ἱέρων ('Hiero'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. In it the poet bewails the indifference of a money-loving age, and asks for the patronage of Hiero , then general-in-chief, afterwards king, of Syracuse .