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.

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.

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