The Suda lists the ancient canon of Greek bucolic poets as Theocritus, Moschus, and Bion, which should reflect chronogical order, and Moschus flourished in the mid 2nd century BC.

Some idea of their general character may be gathered from the 2nd and 15th idylls of Theocritus, which are said to have been imitated from the Akestriai and Isthmiazousai of his Syracusan predecessor.

Two of the best known and the most vital among the Idylls of Theocritus, the 2nd and the 15th, we know to have been derived from mimes of Sophron.

* Theocritus, Bion, Moschus ( 3rd ed ,, 1856 )

* ed., Theocritus ( Cambridge, 1952 )

Thus for example Theocritus presents catalogues of heroines in two of his bucolic poems ( 3. 40 – 51 and 20. 34 – 41 ), where both passages are recited in character by lovelorn rustics.

Bibliography of reconstruction: Homer, Odyssey, 12. 072 ( 7th c. BC ); Theocritus, Idylls, 13 ( 350 – 310 BC ); Callimachus, Aetia ( Causes ), 24.

* Andrew Lang ( 1889 ), with Theocritus and Moschus

Theocritus (, Theocritos ), the creator of ancient Greek bucolic poetry, flourished in the 3rd century BC.

* Theocritus, Bion and Moschus: Rendered into English Prose with an Introductory Essay by Andrew Lang, ( 1880 ), London.

He also translated Hesiod ( 1806 ), Theocritus, Bion and Moschus ( 1808 ), the whole of Virgil ( 1799, rev.

He had a high reputation as a Grecian, a Latinist and a philologist, and he brought out with the collaboration of others his an edition of St Cyprian in 1682, an English translation of The Unity of the Church in 1681, editions of Nemesius of Emesa ( 1671 ), of Aratus and of Eratosthenes ( 1672 ), Theocritus ( 1676 ), Alcinous on Plato ( 1677 ), St Clement's Epistles to the Corinthians ( 1677 ), Athenagoras ( 1682 ), Clemens Alexandrinus ( 1683 ), Theophilus of Antioch ( 1684 ), Grammatica rationis sive institutiones logicae ( 1673 and 1685 ), and a critical edition of the New Testament in 1675.

Banks in Bohn's Classical Library ( 1853 ), and by Andrew Lang ( 1889 ), together with Bion and Theocritus.

As a classical scholar Heinsius edited many Latin and Greek classical as well as patristic authors, amongst others: Hesiod ( 1603 ), Theocritus, Bion and Moschus ( 1603 ), Aristotle ’ s Ars poetica ( 1610 ), Clement of Alexandria ( 1616 ) and Terentius ( 1618 ).

15 ), Cicero's Tusculanae Quaestiones ( Book 1 ), and Theocritus discuss the Endymion myth to some length, but reiterate the above to varying degrees.

He translated Lucretius in verse ( 1682 ), for which he received a Fellowship at Oxford, also Manilius, Horace, Theocritus, and other classics.

These were two of the most powerful families in the Thessalian feudal aristocracy yet they seemed notable to later Greeks such as Theocritus only for their association with Simonides.

This Idyll and 4 are laid in the neighbourhood of Croton, and we may infer that Theocritus was personally acquainted with Magna Graecia.

In 17 Theocritus celebrates the incestuous marriage of Ptolemy Philadelphus with his sister Arsinoë.

This poem, therefore, together with xv, which Theocritus wrote to please Arsinoë must fall within this period.

The encomium upon Hiero II would seem prior to that upon Ptolemy, since in it Theocritus is a hungry poet seeking for a patron, while in the other he is well satisfied with the world.

* Theoctritus, Theocritus The Greek text with translation and commentary by A. S. F.

* Theocritus: Idylls, ( 2003 ) translated by Anthony Verity with an introduction and notes by Richard Hunter, Oxford University Press.

Before his time four Italian towns had won the honors of Greek publications: Milan, with the grammar of Lascaris, Aesop, Theocritus, a Greek Psalter, and Isocrates, between 1476 and 1493 ; Venice, with the Erotemata of Chrysoloras in 1484 ; Vicenza, with reprints of Lascaris ' grammar and the Erotemata, in 1488 and 1490 ; and Florence, with Alopa's Homer, in 1488.

Pastoral literature continued after Hesiod with the poetry of the Hellenistic Greek Theocritus, several of whose Idylls are set in the countryside ( probably reflecting the landscape of the island of Cos where the poet lived ) and involve dialogues between herdsmen.

3. kinship with such work as Theocritus ' Adoniazusae and the Mimes of Herodas.

Landor received a visit from his son Arnold in 1842 and in that year wrote a long essay on Catullus for Forster who was editor of " Foreign Quarterly Review " and followed it up with The Idylls of Theocritus.

While Theocritus describes both motion found in a stationary artwork and underlying motives of characters, " Ode on a Grecian Urn " replaces actions with a series of questions and focuses only on external attributes of the characters.

" During the mid-19th century, Matthew Arnold claimed that the passage describing the little town " is Greek, as Greek as a thing from Homer or Theocritus ; it is composed with the eye on the object, a radiancy and light clearness being added.

Although most accounts are uniform as to the number, names, and main myths concerning the Pleiades, the mythological information recorded by a scholiast on Theocritus ' Idylls with reference to Callimachus has nothing in common with the traditional version.

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 Horace, he made flattering comments on Creech's work in the preface.

* Idylliums of Theocritus, with Rapin's discourse of Pastorals, done into English, 1684, and reprinted in 1721, which was dedicated to Arthur Charlett.

Inspired in part by classical authors who wrote in the pastoral mode — in addition to Virgil and Theocritus including comparatively obscure recently rediscovered Latin poets Calpurnius and Nemesianus — and by Boccaccio's Ameto, Sannazaro depicts a lovelorn first-person narrator (" Sincero ") wandering the countryside ( Arcadia ) and listening to the amorous or mournful songs of the shepherds he meets.

He translated into Latin Herodotus, Demosthenes, Xenophon, Homer, Theocritus, Sophocles, Lucian, Theodoretus, Nicephorus, Ptolemy and other Greek writers.

" Another student said of Corot, " the newspapers had so distorted Corot, putting Theocritus and Virgil in his hands, that I was quite surprised to find him knowing neither Greek nor Latin … His welcome is very open, very free, very amusing: he speaks or listens to you while hopping on one foot or on two ; he sings snatches of opera in a very true voice ", but he has a " shrewd, biting side carefully hidden behind his good nature.

In addition to Plato and Xenophon, Antisthenes, Aeschines of Sphettos, Phaedo of Elis, Euclid of Megara, Simon the Shoemaker, Theocritus, Tissaphernes and Aristotle all wrote Socratic dialogues, and Cicero wrote similar dialogues in Latin on philosophical and rhetorical themes, for example De re publica.

It also has a pastoral setting and is in the tradition of Theocritus ' amatory idylls and Latin love elegy.

His first production, Eclogæ Sacræ ( Paris, 1659 ), won him the title of the Second Theocritus, and his poem on gardens, Hortorum libri IV ( Paris, 1665 ), twice translated into English ( London, 1673 ; Cambridge, 1706 ), placed him among the foremost Latin versifiers.

Amongst other residence of Dubrovnik were the physician Baglivi ; the mathematician Roger Joseph Boscovich ; several members of the family of Stay ( Stojic ), Raimondo Cunich, the author of many Latin poems and for a long time a professor in the Gregorian college at Rome ; Bernardo Zamagna, who translated into Latin the Odyssey, Hesiod, Theocritus, and Moschus ; Cardinal Giovanni Stoiko, who was sent as legate to the council of Basle ; Simone Benessa, a jurist, the author of a book on the practice of the courts of Ragusa and Benedetto Cotrugli, who was employed in several important offices of state, such as the Kingdom of Naples.

At Geneva he had produced some notes on Diogenes Laertius, Theocritus and the New Testament.

Hesiod described one group of cyclopes and the epic poet Homer described another, though other accounts have also been written by the playwright Euripides, poet Theocritus and Roman epic poet Virgil.

It is clear that at a very early date two collections were made: one consisting of poems whose authorship was doubtful yet formed a corpus of bucolic poetry, the other a strict collection of those works considered to have been composed by Theocritus himself.

" Fellow Fireside Poet John Greenleaf Whittier praised Lowell by writing two poems in his honor and calling him " our new Theocritus " and " one of the strongest and manliest of our writers – a republican poet who dares to speak brave words of unpopular truth.

According to the scholiast on Theocritus, one form was employed at night, and another, to rouse the bride and bridegroom on the following morning.

Creech's translation of one of the idyls of Theocritus is inscribed to his ‘ chum Mr. Hody of Wadham College ,’ and another is dedicated to Robert Balch, who at a later date was his ‘ friend and tutor .’ Two of his letters are printed in Evelyn's Diary.

He was the author of editions of Theocritus ( 1820 ), of the Vatican fragments of Polybius ( 1829 ), of the Omiutractatus of Dio Chrysostom ( 1840 ) and of numerous essays in the Rheinisches Museum and Bibliotheca critica nova, of which he was one of the founders.

Even Hellenistic literature exhibits two distinct tendencies, one rationalistic and scholarly, the other romantic and popular: the former originated in the schools of the Alexandrian sophists and culminated in the rhetorical romance, the latter rooted in the idyllic tendency of Theocritus and culminated in the idyllic novel.