Who is Theocritus

Theocritus (; Greek: Θεόκριτος, Theokritos; born c. 300 BC, died after 260 BC) was a Greek poet from Sicily and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry.

Life

Little is known of Theocritus beyond what can be inferred from his writings. We must, however, handle these with some caution, since some of the poems (Idylls; Εἰδύλλια) commonly attributed to him have little claim to authenticity. It is clear that at a very early date two collections were made: one consisting of poems whose authorship was doubtful yet formed a corpus of bucolic poetry, the other a strict collection of those works considered to have been composed by Theocritus himself.Theocritus was from Sicily, as he refers to Polyphemus, the Cyclops in the Odyssey, as his "countryman."...
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Theocritus Poems

• The Love Of Thyonichus
  AESCHINES.
  Hail, sir Thyonichus.
  
  THYONICHUS....
• The Two Workmen
  MILO. BATTUS.
  MILO.
  Well, my poor ploughman, and what ails thee now?
  Thy furrow lies not even as of yore:...
• Idyll Xii
  Art come, dear youth? two days and nights away!
  (Who burn with love, grow aged in a day.)
  As much as apples sweet the damson crude
  Excel; the blooming spring the winter rude; ...
• The Giant's Wooing
  Methinks all nature hath no cure for Love,
  Plaster or unguent, Nicias, saving one;
  And this is light and pleasant to a man,
  Yet hard withal to compass-minstrelsy....
• The Psalm Of Adonis - From Fifteenth Idyll
  O Queen that loves Golgi, and Idalium,
  And the steep of Eryx,
  O Aphrodite, that playes with gold,
  Lo, from the stream eternal of Acheron ...

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Theocritus Quotes

• Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.
• Sleeping, we image what awake we wish; Dogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

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Comments about Theocritus

• Nonchalantly_: theocritus and callimachus.
• Kirkdalebooks: i ordered a few books for me 1. hudson "a shepherd's life" 2. virgil eclogues and georgics 3. theocritus idylls they are for a book i am going to write.
• Sort_of_face: Ｔｈｅｏｃｒｉｔｕｓ？　Ｉｔ　ｄａｍｎ　ｎｅａｒ　ｋｉｌｌｅｄ　ｕｓ！
• Kevin_jackson91: imagine negroes getting racial, and they have theocritus memorized because a scorpion was in a jar and a kid is ready to get the punishment in the class room as parents are in servitude. i’m mirroring mexico and their farm laborer, just to make it about servitude. yes.
• Kevin_jackson91: “i’m irish.” you don’t want negroes to do more than say, “that’s cool” or “tell me more”, or “i don’t care.” that’s the smile. you don’t want negroes to read theocritus to hear a guy say, “i’m irish”, & they say, “you negro-turned-inside-out.” but fair are for calling me “n.”

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