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

* Theocritus, Idylls, XVIII ( The Epithalamium of Helen ).

After she died, Ptolemy II and later Ptolemy IV Philopator decreed divine honors to her ( Theocritus, Idylls xv.

* Theoctritus, The Idylls of Theocritus, translated by R. C.

* Theocritus: Idylls and Epigrams, ( 1982 ) translated by Daryl Hine, Atheneum, New York.

* Theocritus, The Idylls of Theocritus, tr.

Begun in early life and published in Naples in 1504, the Arcadia is a pastoral Romance, in which Sincero, the persona of the poet, disappointed in love, withdraws from the city ( Naples in this case ) to pursue in Arcadia an idealized pastoral existence among the shepherd-poets, in the manner of the Idylls of Theocritus.

Another example of the mention of this perfect relationship between man and nature is Theocritus ' poem Idylls 1 in which we see an encounter of a shepherd and a goatherd who meet in the pastures.

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.

* Two Idylls by Theocritus ( English )

Virgil took the idealized Sicilian rustics that had first appeared in the Idylls of Theocritus and set them in the primitive Greek district of Arcadia ( see Eclogues VII and X ).

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.

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.

An idyll or idyl ( or ; from Greek-eidullion, " short poem ") is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus ' short pastoral poems, the Idylls.

The name " Lycidas " comes from Theocritus ' Idylls, where Lycidas ( Λυκίδας ) is most prominently a poet-goatherd encountered on the trip of Idyll vii.

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.

* The Idylls of Theocritus ( The Casanova Society, 1925 ) translator

A cruder kind of drama, the amoebaean verse, or bucolic mime, developed into the only pure stream of genial poetry found in the Alexandrian School, the Idylls of Theocritus.

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

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

Besides a number of volumes of short poems of an amorous or congratulatory kind, he translated or paraphrased various pieces from Bion, Moschus, Theocritus, Anacreon, Catullus and Martial.

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

* ‘ The Idylliums of Theocritus, translated by Francis Fawkes ,’ 1767.

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.

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.

Although the full story was described by Ovid, it was also mentioned by Philoxenus and Theocritus, and in Valerius Flaccus ' version of Argonautica, among the themes painted on the Argos, " Cyclops from the Sicilian shore calls Galatea back.

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.

According to another source, 18th century Scots writers like Allan Ramsay justified their use of Scots ( instead of English ) by comparing it to the use of Ancient Greek Doric by Theocritus.

He influenced Alexandrian poets searching for alternative styles and uses of language, such as Callimachus and Herodas, and his colourful reputation as an acerbic, social critic also made him a popular subject for verse, as in this epigram by Theocritus:

* The Death of Daphnis A poem by Theocritus

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.

" Theocritus speaks of himself as having already gained fame, and says that his lays have been brought by report even unto the throne of Zeus.

Two of these are certainly by Theocritus, 28 and 29, composed in Aeolic verse and in the Aeolic dialect.

As the subject and style very closely resemble that of 29, it is assigned to Theocritus by recent editors.

It can hardly be by Leonidas himself, who was a contemporary of Theocritus, as it bears marks of lateness.

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

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

* Theocritus: Select Poems, ( 1971 ) commentary by K. J.

* Poems by Theocritus English translations

* Online text: Theocritus translation by J. M. Edmonds, 1912

They include poems by Simias and Theocritus.

Pope had urged him to undertake this task in order to ridicule the Arcadian pastorals of Ambrose Philips, who had been praised by a short-lived contemporary publication The Guardian, to the neglect of Pope's claims as the first pastoral writer of the age and the true English Theocritus.

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.