• Idyll XIII, sometimes called Ύλας ('Hylas'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. As in Idyll XI, Nicias is again addressed...
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  • Idyll I, sometimes called Θύρσις ('Thyrsis'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus which takes the form of a dialogue between...
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  • Idyll III, also called Κώμος ('The Serenade'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poet appears to personate a young goatherd...
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  • Idyll II, also called Φαρμακεύτριαι ('The Sorceresses'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus, usually categorised with Idylls XIV and...
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    Idyll XI, otherwise known as Bucolic poem 11, was written by Theocritus in dactylic hexameter. Its main character, the Cyclops Polyphemus, has appeared...
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  • Idyll XV, also called "The Women at the Adonis-Festival" in English, is a mime by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. This idyll describes the visit...
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  • Idyll XVIII, also titled Ἑλένης Ἐπιθάλαμιος ('The Epithalamy of Helen'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poem includes a re-creation...
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  • Idyll XXVI, also titled Λῆναι ('The Bacchanals') or Βάκχαι ('The Bacchantes'), is a bucolic poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet...
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  • Idyll XXIV, also called Ἡρακλίσκος (Heracliscus; 'The Little Heracles'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. This poem describes the...
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    Idyll V, sometimes called Αιπολικόν και Ποιμενικόν ('The Goatherd and the Shepherd'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. This...
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  • Idyll VI, otherwise known as Bucolic poem 6, was written by Theocritus in dactylic hexameter. The exact date of its composition is unknown. It references...
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  • Idyll XVII, also titled Εγκώμιον εις Πτολεμαίον ('The Panegyric of Ptolemy'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poem is a panegyric...
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  • Idyll VIII, also called Βουκολιασταί βʹ ('The Second Country Singing-Match'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The characters...
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  • Idyll XX, also called Βουκολίσκος ('The Young Countryman'), is a bucolic poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd century BC Greek poet Theocritus. A neatherd...
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  • Idyll XII, sometimes called Ἀίτης ('The Beloved' or 'The Passionate Friend'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. Andrew Lang...
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  • Idyll VII, also called θαλύσια ('Harvest Home'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The dramatic persona, a poet, making his...
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    Idyll XXV, later titled Ηρακλής Λεοντοφόνος ('Heracles the Lion-slayer') by Callierges, is a poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet...
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  • Idyll XIX, also titled Κηριοκλέπτης ('The Honey-Stealer'), is a poem doubtfully ascribed to the third-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. Eros complains...
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    Idyll X, sometimes called Θερισταί ('The Reapers') or Εργατίναι ('The Labourers'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The...
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    Idyll XIV, also called Κυνίσκας Ἔρως ('The Love of Cynisca') or Θυώνιχος ('Thyonichus'), is an 'urban mime' by the 3rd century BC Greek poet Theocritus...
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    Idyll XVI, also called Χάριτες ('The Charities') or Ἱέρων ('Hiero'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. In it the poet bewails the...
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  • Idyll IV, also titled Νομεῖς ('The Herdsmen'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poem is a conversation between a goatherd...
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  • Idyll XXI, also called Ἁλιεῖς ('The Fisherman'), is a poem traditionally attributed to the 3rd century BC Greek poet Theocritus. After some verses addressed...
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  • Idyll XXII, also called Διόσκουροι ('The Dioscuri'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. It is a hymn, in the Homeric manner, to Castor...
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  • Idyll XXVII, also titled Οαριστύς ('The Lovers' Talk'), is a bucolic poem traditionally attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus, but probably...
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  • Idyll XXIII, also called Εραστής ('The Lover'), is a poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. It tells how a lover hanged...
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  • Idyll IX, also titled Βουκολιασταί γʹ ('The Third Country Singing-Match'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. Daphnis and...
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    Sureños (redirect from Sur XIII)
    Insurgencies. 21 (1): 81–92. doi:10.1080/09592310903561486. S2CID 143327189. "Idyllic Half Moon Bay caught in war between Norteños and Sureños". The Mercury...
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    with creating the genre of pastoral poetry. His works are titled Idylls and of these Idyll XI tells the story of the Cyclops' love for Galatea. Though the...
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    equestrian competitions; he gained some fame in the latter. This little idyll was spoiled by orders to report to a small town in central Italy. Baracca...
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