Theocritus

Theocritus was a Greek poet. He was born c. 300 BC in Syracuse, Sicily and  died after 260 BC. Theocritus was the inventor of pastoral poetry (poetry about shepherds). His poems were called idylls which perhaps means "little poems". Very little is known about his life but at various times he lived in Sicily, Kos and Alexandria.

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Theocritus; Encyclopædia Britannica

Category:Ancient Greek poets
Category:3rd-century BC deaths