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Idylls (Oxford World's Classics)
Idylls - Oxford World's Classics
Author: Theocritus
A key figure in the development of Western literature, the Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse, was the inventor of "bucolic" or pastoral poetry in the first half of the third century BC. These vignettes of country life, which center on competitions of song and love are the foundational poems of the western pastoral tradition. — They were...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199552429
ISBN-10: 0199552428
Publication Date: 10/15/2008
Pages: 144
Edition: New Ed. /
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
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