collection of those works considered to have been composed by Theocritus himself. Theocritus was from Sicily, as he refers to Polyphemus, the Cyclops in...

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout...

2020. Bion, Moschus & Theocritus 1870, p. 176. Theocritus 1889, p. 317. sfn error: no target: CITEREFTheocritus1889 (help) Theocritus 2004, Idyll VI. Propertius...

Theocritus vase]". The British Museum. Retrieved 30 June 2023. "The Theocritus Cup". National Museums Liverpool. Retrieved 30 June 2023. "Theocritus,...

Odyssey, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Theocritus' Idyll XI. The poem is addressed to Aratus, a friend of Theocritus, who is also referenced in Idyll VII...

Scholia on Theocritus, Idyll 2. 12 referring to Sophron Hesychius s. v. Ἄγγελος, again referring to Sophron Cf. e. g. scholia on Theocritus, Idyll 2. 33:...

from Theocritus' poems, called idylls ('little scenes' or 'vignettes'), even though erotic turbulence disturbs the "idyllic" landscapes of Theocritus. Virgil's...

There are eight surviving mimes attributed to Herodas, and three of Theocritus' idylls have been described as "urban mimes". The Sorceresses (3rd century...

one of Theocritus' best-well-known bucolics, along with Idylls I, VI, and VII. Idyll XI has an unusual set of narrative framing, as Theocritus appears...

in the Idylls of Theocritus: Metrical Mime, Drama, and the "Everyday" in Theocritus, Idylls 2, 14, 15". Brill's Companion to Theocritus. Brill's Companions...

Apollodorus, 3.11.2 Pausanias, 2.22.5 Apollodorus, 3.11.2; Hyginus, Fabulae 80 Theocritus, Idylls 22.137 ff.; Ovid, Fasti 5.709 ff. Hyginus, Fabulae 80 Apollodorus...

Library (1853), and by Andrew Lang (1889), together with Bion of Smyrna and Theocritus. See also Franz Susemihl, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur in der...

under the mountain. Mythology portal Ancient Greece portal Scholia on Theocritus, Idylls 7.76 Larson 2001, p. 173. Scholia on the Iliad 14.229b Nicander...

been connected with both the Underworld and a form of agrarian magic. Theocritus described one of Demeter's earlier roles as that of a goddess of poppies:...

ed. (1880). Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus. London: Macmillan and Co. pp. 61–2. Cholmeley, R. J., ed. (1919). The Idylls of Theocritus (2nd ed.). London:...

Fowler. Apollodorus, 1.7.5 [= Zenobius 3.76]. Gantz, p. 35; Theocritus, 3.49–50. See also Theocritus, 20.37–39. Hard, p. 411; Cicero, Tusculan Disputations...

The sense of dum spiro spero can be found in the work of Greek poet Theocritus (3rd Century BC), who wrote: "While there's life there's hope, and only...

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...

9.34.4 Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1225 ff. Hyginus, Fabulae 14 Theocritus, Idylls 13.44 Diodorus Siculus, 5.5.1 Theoi Project - Naiades Ortygiai...

on Hylas as his arms-bearer and taught him to be a warrior. The poet Theocritus (about 300 BC) wrote about the love between Heracles and Hylas: "We are...

said to be the "pure and proper" leader of the dancing Spartan women. Theocritus conjures the song epithalamium Spartan women sung at Platanistas commemorating...

Fellowship at Oxford. He also produced English versions of Manilius, Horace, Theocritus, and other classics. He was born at Blandford Forum, Dorset. His father...

3rd century BC Greek poet Theocritus, but with elements added from Idyll 4 and other Theocritean idylls. Like Theocritus's Idylls 4 and 5, and all of...

Theocritus (Greek: Θεόκριτος; died 518) was a candidate to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire in 518. He lost to Justin I. Theocritus is an obscure...

Theocritus Idyll 1, lines 12–14, in script with abbreviations and ligatures from a caption in an illustrated edition of Theocritus. Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer:...

Biography and Mythology, 1870, article on Epicharmus, [8] Theocritus, Idylls and Epigrams. (Theocritus translated into English Verse by C.S. Calverley, [9])...

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.61.3 Scholiast ad Theocritus, 1.3 Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.620 ff with scholia on 1.623 Stephanus...

ed. (1880). Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus. London: Macmillan and Co. pp. 103–12. Cholmeley, R. J., ed. (1919). The Idylls of Theocritus (2nd ed.). London:...

the encounter of a shepherd and a goatherd who meet in the pastures in Theocritus' poem Idylls 1. Traditionally, pastoral refers to the lives of herdsmen...

"sparkle, shine". The name appears in Ancient Greek and Roman literature. In Theocritus' Idylls, a goatherd sings a serenade outside the cave of the nymph Amaryllis...