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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.
The poet Theocritus (about 300 BC) wrote about the love between Heracles and Hylas: "We are not the first mortals to see beauty in what is beautiful. No, even Amphitryon's bronze-hearted son, who defeated the savage Nemean lion, loved a boy—charming Hylas, whose hair hung down in curls. And like a father with a dear son, he taught him all the ...
Bion (Βίων / ˈ b aɪ ɒ n /) was an ancient Greek bucolic poet from Smyrna, probably active at the end of the second or beginning of the first century BC.He is named in the Suda as one of three canonical bucolic poets alongside Theocritus and Moschus.
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.
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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 ...
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 ...