Theocritus

• “The one I particularly allude to in Theocritus is in his "Epigrams," I think in the Fourth.”

  Rural Hours

• “In the list of his reading I find, in Greek, Theocritus, the”

  Notes to The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

• “Milon replies with the song of Lityerses -- a string, apparently, of popular rural couplets, such as Theocritus may have heard chanted in the fields.”

  Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose

• “In 'Idylls IV, written by the Greek bucolic poet Theocritus, 3rd century BC, Corydon says to his fellow herdsman:' Be comforted.”

  entretenir de grands espoirs - French Word-A-Day

• “(London, 1709), written in emulation of Virgil and Theocritus (in which Alexis appears).”

  Letter 68

• “Imitating the Greek Bucolica ( "on care of cattle", so named from the poetry's rustic subjects) by Theocritus, Virgil created a Roman version partly by offering a dramatic and mythic interpretation of revolutionary change at Rome in the turbulent period between roughly 44 and 38 BC.”

  Archive 2009-03-01

• “In 'Idylls IV, written by the Greek bucolic poet Theocritus, 3rd century BC, Corydon says to his fellow herdsman: 'Be comforted.”

  entretenir de grands espoirs - French Word-A-Day

• “I remembered it most of all, I had to admit, because it was, in the poet's words, 'an ode in the manner of Theocritus'.”

  Books

• “These were thoughts that began with Theocritus, with the Palatine Anthology, with Greeks that we no longer even know of - and endured into the English Romantics and beyond.”

  A throat slashed on ice

• “The amount of literary and archaeological evidence attests to the belief in the evil eye in the eastern Mediterranean for more than a millennium starting with Hesiod, Callimachus, Plato, Diodorus Siculus, Theocritus, Plutarch, Heliodorus, Pliny the Elder, and Aulus Gellius.”

  Archive 2007-12-01

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