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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 ]
Speakers of non-rhotic accents, as in much of Australia, England, New Zealand, and Wales, will pronounce the second syllable [fəd], those with the father–bother merger, as in much of the US and Canada, will pronounce the first syllable [ˈɑːks], and those with the cot–caught merger but without the father–bother merger, as in Scotland ...
The name later occurs in Theocritus's Idylls, where Lycidas is most prominently a poet-goatherd encountered on the trip of "Idyll vii." The name appears several times in Virgil and is a typically Doric shepherd's name, appropriate for the pastoral mode.
Idyll XXVI, also titled Λῆναι ('The Bacchanals') or Βάκχαι ('The Bacchantes'), is a bucolic poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. [1] This Idyll narrates the murder of Pentheus , who was torn to pieces (after the Dionysiac Ritual ) by his mother, Agave , and other Theban women, for having watched ...
The Java edition of Minecraft [35] has a Klingon language setting. The 2003–2010 version of the puzzle globe logo of Wikipedia , representing its multilingualism, contained a Klingon character. When updated in 2010, the Klingon character was removed from the logo, and substituted with one from the Ge'ez script . [ 36 ]
Idyll XII, sometimes called Ἀίτης ('The Beloved' or 'The Passionate Friend'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Analysis
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 I, sometimes called Θύρσις ('Thyrsis'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus which takes the form of a dialogue between two rustics in a pastoral setting. [1] Thyrsis meets a goatherd in a shady place beside a spring, and at his invitation sings the story of Daphnis. [ 2 ]