Paperback • 2006 • English

Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry

Name: Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry
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By Richard Hunter

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About the book

The poems of Theocritus are our best witness to a brilliant poetic culture that flourished in the first half of the third century BC. This book considers the context from which these poems grew and, in particular, the manner in which they engage with and recreate the poetic forms of the Greek archaic age. The focus is not on the familiar bucolic poems of Theocritus, but on the hymns, mimes and erotic poems of the second half of the corpus. Recent papyri have greatly increased our understanding o...Show more

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9780521035262

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry

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Paperback

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