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.

The account formerly given of him, that he was the contemporary of Theocritus and a friend and teacher of Moschus, and lived about 280 BC, is now regarded as incorrect: it rests on a misreading of the Epitaph of Bion, a poem commemorating his death, which in early modern times was erroneously attributed to Moschus.

Theocritus, who lived from about 310 to 250 BC, was the creator of pastoral poetry, a type that the Roman Virgil mastered in his Eclogues.

* Alphesiboea who, according to Theocritus, was a daughter of Bias, and the wife of Pelias.

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 was from Sicily, as he refers to Polyphemus, the cyclops in the Odyssey, as his " countryman.

It is also speculated that Theocritus was born in Syracuse, lived on the island of Kos, and lived in Egypt during the time of Ptolemy II.

A larger collection, possibly more extensive than that of Artemidorus, and including poems of doubtful authenticity, was known to the author of the Suda, who says: " Theocritus wrote the so-called bucolic poems in the Doric dialect.

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

Now Hiero first came to the front in 275 when he was made General: Theocritus speaks of his achievements as still to come, and the silence of the poet would show that Hiero ’ s marriage to Phulistis, his victory over the Mamertines at the Longanus and his election as " King ", events which are ascribed to 270, had not yet taken place.

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

# Alcman, Sappho, Alcaeus and Theocritus have σδ for Attic-Ionic ζ. Contra: The tradition would not have invented this special digraph for these poets if was the normal pronunciation in all Greek.

Theocritus was imitated by the Greek poets Bion and Moschus.

" 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.

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.

He was also the author of scholia on the first and second books of the Iliad, on Hesiod, Theocritus, Pindar and other classical and later authors ; of riddles, letters, and a treatise on the magic squares.

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

His classical training was due to Thomas Curgenven, rector of Folke in Dorset, but best known as master of Sherborne school, to whom Creech afterwards dedicated his translation of the seventh idyll of Theocritus, and to whom he acknowledged his debt in the preface to his translation of Horace.

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.

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

In Egypt, he became a papyrologist, discovering a papyrus by Theocritus that was 900 years older than any such previously-discovered manuscript.

In the first Idyll of Theocritus, for example, the goat-herd invites the shepherd to sit “ here beneath the elm ” (« δεῦρ ’ ὑπὸ τὰν πτελέαν ») and sing.

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.

* The Death of Daphnis A poem by Theocritus

In Eclogue 10, Virgil caps his book by inventing a new myth of poetic authority and origin: he replaces Theocritus ' Sicily and old bucolic hero, the impassioned oxherd Daphnis, with the impassioned voice of his contemporary Roman friend, the elegiac poet Gaius Cornelius Gallus, imagined dying of love in Arcadia.

Theocritus, in his narration of the ( boxing ) match between Polydeukēs and Amykos, noted that the two opponents struggled a lot, vying to see who would get the sun's rays on his back.

I, Theocritus, who wrote these songs, am of Syracuse, a man of the people, the son of Praxagoras and famed Philina.

On the other hand, it is clear that both poems were in Virgil's Theocritus, and that they passed the scrutiny of the editor who formed the short collection of Theocritean Bucolics.

Hence, the book is of great value to the student of the Greek dialects, while in the restoration of the text of the classical authors generally, and particularly of such writers as Aeschylus and Theocritus, who used many unusual words, its value can hardly be exaggerated.

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.

Outstanding literary figures of the Hellenistic period were Menander, the chief representative of a newer type of comedy ; the poets Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius Rhodius, author of the Argonautica ; and Polybius, who wrote a detailed history of the Mediterranean world.

" 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.

Theocritus, who lived from about 310 to 250 BC, invented a new genre of poetry — bucolic, a genre that the Roman Virgil would later imitate in his Eclogues.

Callimachus, who lived at the same time as Theocritus, worked his entire adult life at Alexandria and compiled a prose treatise entitled the Pinakes which catalogued the great works held in the library.

A century or more earlier than Theocritus, Herodotus in his Book IX mentions an Athenian councillor in Salamis, " a man named Lycidas " who, in proposing to the much put upon Greeks as a whole ( put upon by the Persian king Xerxes ), that they should entertain a compromise of their freedoms as suggested by the king and his ambassadors, who at that time had all Hellas in grip, or so they thought, that the king's proposals should be ' submitted for approval to the general assembly of the people '.

He was a friend of Theocritus, who flourished about 270 BC.

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.

* Theocritus, who wrote the bucolic poems

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.

" 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.

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.

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.

Of his models the chief is Virgil, of whom ( under the name of Tityrus ) he speaks with great enthusiasm ; he is also indebted to Ovid and Theocritus.

The method is entirely Alexandrian: Sophron had written in a peculiar kind of rhythmical prose ; Theocritus uses the hexameter and Doric, Herodas the scazon or " lame " iambic ( with a dragging spondee at the end ) and the old Ionic dialect with which that curious metre was associated.

But the grumbling metre and quaint language suit the tone of common life that Herodas aims at realizing ; for, as Theocritus may be called idealist, Herodas is a realist unflinching.

The epyllion was a popular style of composition which seems to have developed in the Hellenistic age ; surviving examples can be found in Theocritus and Catullus.

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.

From an anecdote recorded by Plutarch, it is clear that Lagus was a man of obscure birth ; hence, when Theocritus calls Ptolemy a descendant of Heracles, he probably means to represent him as the son of Philip.