num_pages: 250
description: This is a new annotated translation of the Greek poems of Theocritus of Syracuse (first half of the third century BC), the inventor of "bucolic" or "pastoral" poetry, the principal model for Virgil in the Eclogues, and hence a major figure in the literary traditions that antiquity bequeathedto Western literature.
language: English
title: Theocritus: Idylls
titlecomplete: Theocritus: Idylls
genres: Mythology, Greece, Classical Studies, Philosophy, Ancient History, Poetry, Literature, Classics, Fiction, Ancient
ratings_count: 647
places: Sicily, Syracuse, Sicily
publisher: Oxford University Press