Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
All pages with titles containing idyll or idylls; All pages with titles containing idyl or idyls; All pages with titles beginning with Idyl; Idyll XI (bucolic poem #11) by Theocritus; Idyll VI (bucolic poem #6) by Theocritus; Idyllic school (The Idyllists), 19th century British art movement; Ideal (disambiguation) Idol (disambiguation) Idle ...
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 ...
This page was last edited on 18 September 2024, at 19:43 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Idyll XV, also called "The Women at the Adonis-Festival" in English, is a mime by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. [1] This idyll describes the visit paid by two Syracusan women residing in Alexandria , to the festival of the resurrection of Adonis .
She had several affairs with women, which her husband was aware of. [3] Their open marriage was the central subject in Havelock Ellis's autobiography, My Life (1939). Lily Kirkpatrick, 1902. Her first novel, Seaweed: A Cornish Idyll, was published in 1898. [4]
Syracusan Bride leading Wild Animals in Procession to the Temple of Diana (1866). This monologue consists of two parts; in the first part a Coan girl named Simaetha, assisted by her maid Thestylis, lays a fire-spell upon her neglectful lover, the young athlete Delphis; in the second, when her maid goes off to smear the ashes upon his lintel, she tells the Moon how his love was won and lost. [1]
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).