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The naiads were also known to exhibit jealous tendencies. Theocritus's story of naiad jealousy was that of a shepherd, Daphnis, who was the lover of Nomia or Echenais; Daphnis had on several occasions been unfaithful to Nomia and as
Theocritus (/ θ iː ˈ ɒ k r ɪ t ə s /; Ancient Greek: Θεόκριτος, Theokritos; born c. 300 BC, died after 260 BC) was a Greek poet from Sicily, Magna Graecia, and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry.
This eclogue tells the story of how two boys, Chromis and Mnasyllos, and a Naiad persuaded Silenus to sing to them, and how he sang to them of the world's beginning, the Flood, the Golden Age, Prometheus, Hylas, Pasiphaë, Atalanta and Phaëthon's sisters; after which he described how the Muses gave Gallus (a close personal friend of Virgil's ...
Daphnis is the subject of Theocritus's first Idyll, which describes his death. Virgil 's Fifth Eclogue contains two songs sung by herdsmen, one lamenting the death of Daphnis, and the other celebrating his acceptance into heaven as a god.
They were also the fathers of the Naiads [citation needed] and Potamides. [6] The river gods were depicted in one of three forms: a man-headed bull, a bull-headed man with the body of a serpent-like fish from the waist down, or as a reclining man with an arm resting upon an amphora jug pouring water. [citation needed] Notable river gods include:
Theocritus's Idyll 13, a poem of circa 300 BC devoted to Hylas. P. Oxy. 694, 2nd century AD. In Greek mythology, Hylas was the son of King Theiodamas [1] [2] of the Dryopians and the nymph Menodice, daughter of Orion. [3] In some accounts, his father was Euphemus [4] or King Ceyx of Trachis. [5]
Idyll XIII, sometimes called Ύλας ('Hylas'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. [1] [2] As in Idyll XI, Nicias is again addressed, by way of introduction to the story of Hylas. [3] This beautiful lad, a favourite companion of Heracles, took part in the Quest of the Fleece of Gold. [3]
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 [11] A further amount of yet unpublished idylls were printed in Rome together with their old scholia by Zacharias Calliergis in his 1516 edition of Theocritus.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] Theocritus, Idyllia [4] [2] 1488–1489 [13] Homerus, Ilias and Odyssea [13 ...