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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.”
02chalamet: theocritus was the first cottagecore girly
d4doome: Dragon’s Cave (1940), Clyde B. Clason’s 8th Professor Lucius Theocritus Westborough mystery novel, offers not one but two locked-room puzzles. A collector of edged weapons is murdered with a 16th century Swiss halberd. Witty, polished, erudite.
My review:
ca_cryptids: Galatea
Galatea is a Greek name for a statue of Pygmalion carved of ivory by Cyprus. Galatea also refers to Polyphemus's object of desire in Theocritus's Idylls VI and XI and to the myth of Acis and GalateA i...
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losthistory_bot: Theocritus was an Ancient Greek poet, who wrote idylls – short, pastoral poems which focused on nature, pastoral figures, and love. He is credited with being a major influence in the development of pastoral poetry and the Hellenistic Age.
JaxPeel: "Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense." - Theocritus
arionjournal: We had a tie between Callimachus and Theocritus in our polls! Want more Hellenistic poetry? You can enjoy John Talbot’s review-discussion of Frank Nisetich’s The Poems of Callimachus from Arion 12.1 here:
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Heuroinomanus: There is this misconception that the escapism and romanticization of rural life is a phenomenon of modern tradies. Already in Rome or Greece, the "green cabinet" was a treasured genre among literate urbanites like Theocritus and from which bucolic poetry would emerge.
kaitabasis: Very excited about this deep cut Theocritus XV reference in Cambridge Latin Course.
CMetc: Viola Palmieri, Augeas in [Theocritus’] Id. 25: An Example of a Good (‘Ptolemaic’?) King?
ColinMahoney15: On this Valentine's Day, White Ash Flies presents Cyclops in Love: Idyll XI of Theocritus (c. 270 BC), translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, read by Colin Mahoney.
“‘Milk dry the present!’”
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positivistdate: In the Positivist calendar, today is Saturday, Homer 6, 235, Theocritus day
positivistdate: In the Positivist calendar, today is Saturday, 6 Homer CCXXXV, Theocritus day
AfricanWorldH: After the fall of ancient Kemet the Medjay, would later be known as "Blemmyes" to the Greeks, begining around the 3rd century BC. They are mentioned in Greek poems of Theocritus and as late as the Roman era they were still being used as hired Soldiers, living in Egypt & Sudan.
Gilchy_Andrew: TIL that country music is actually the distant spiritual descendant of the Greek poet Theocritus
JovetEric: Theocritus influence goes on
utpjournals: Mouseion 19.1 is here! Read about Theocritus’ poem Idyll 11, the use of the word “tamen” in Plautus, public opinion of Roman foreign policy in 169 BC, and more:
93vintagejones: 'Courageous Theocritus, this is his grave.
War spares the coward, not the brave.'
WentaoZhai: *Theocritus 10.33, sorry!
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HarrierMagnus: All great literature has monsters in it, doesn't it?
That's the line of continuity that runs through the Western Canon: monsters. They're in all the great works.
The gods & demons in the Iliad, the gods & demons in the Aeneid, the threat of satyrs in Theocritus...
RiotLinguist: theocritus idyll 23 honestly seems to me like a variant on the same basic format as the narcissus myth incidentally--a man obsessively pursues an unnamed boy, who is described as cruel & prideful in refusing, & "eying every man even as the beast of the field suspects the hunter"
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sort_of_face: Theocritus? It damn near killed us!
rogueclassicist: The Hellenistic Age Podcast: 081: Hellenistic Literature - Theocritus and Bucolic Poetry on Apple Podcasts
r_a_poe: I just listened to this episode... 081: Hellenistic Literature - Theocritus and Bucolic Poetry. You can listen to it on Goodpods!
HellenisticPod: 081: Hellenistic Literature - Theocritus and Bucolic Poetry
Shying away from tales of gods and heroes, Theocritus of Syracuse chose to base his poems on the ancient countryside and the idyllic life of shepherds, inventing "Bucolic" or Pastoral Poetry.
ailourosmarjara: My dream calendar design now is to have a daily Theocritus quote with some fairy-tale style illustrations.
HellenisticPod: This weekend will see the release of episode 082, where I will talk about the Bucolic poetry of Theocritus of Syracuse (3rd century BC)
This will be a shorter episode, but I hope you enjoy it nevertheless
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HellenisticPod: Come out, Galatea, come out and forget your home,
Just as I sit here and forget to return to mine.
Follow the shepherd's life with me - milking,
and setting cheese with the rennet's pungent drops
- Theocritus, Idylls, 11.63-66 ("The Cyclops' Serenade")
trotting_osiris: “Egyptians are twisted and bitter people with a sense of humor,” said Roman poet Theocritus.
AM_Christensen: Imagine you’re teaching a 3rd/4th year Greek poetry class. Your theme is witches/witchcraft & you’re going to read the Circe bits in Odyssey, some of the Medea bits in Argonautika, & Theocritus Idyll 2. Would you read them in chrono order? Would you start w/Theo because it’s
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BrandtSlurb: I am delighted to be part of this (although I should probably apologise to Euripides, Catullus, and Theocritus).
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wisewordsbot: footwork Theocritus impose
KBoelkes: Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.
— Theocritus, 3rd cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet
words4h1m: A loving Pair
Sleep on, happy pair
Breathing into each other's boson love and desire.
And forget not to rise towards morning
-Theocritus
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OInscendence: "O Daphnis, lovely is thy voice, thy music sweetly sung;
Such song is pleasanter to me than honey on my tongue.
Accept this pipe, for thou hast won."
- "Idyll VIII. - The Triumph of Daphnis", Theocritus
aquotebot: “Now I know Eros, violent God: he burns me up with a slow fire, to pieces he damages my bones.” –Theocritus
Tarn_nation: If you studied CrWr, what was your most foundational course? For me it was a course tracing the evolution of poetic genres from Theocritus to contemporary poetry. Included: pastoral, eclogue, georgic, epistle, plain ode, prospect ode, elegy, dram mon, ballad, itinerary etc.
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battening: and here's some bucolic poetry from theocritus for inspiration
ailourosmarjara: "I learnt the truth of late when I bethought me didst thou
love me, and the smack caused not the love-in-absence to cling, but idly it shrivelled on my smooth forearm." (Theocritus, Idyll 3.29, tr. Gow)
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arionjournal: The cyclops is no stranger to past and present issues of Arion, as we have cyclopean motifs featured in our upcoming issue. Have a read from our early archives of Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Theocritus' Idyll 11 here:
ConnorsNotHere: Somewhere out there, Theocritus is smiling down at the cottage-core gays.
Rose123456789s: Let me show you why a lowly kitchen witch does it better. Muggles. U pretentious little spits with pathetic existences
Iunx, bring my man home - Theocritus Idyll, 3RD centry BC
snaprecipient: Here's an old poem I still like a lot. It was originally published in a collection of queer Arkansas poets from Sibling Rivalry, later in a split chap I did with my gf called Braided Channel. The epigraph is a refrain from Theocritus' Idyll 1.
nekomatapoetry: Eclogue 10
In Eclogue 10, Virgil caps his book by inventing a new myth of poetic authority and origin: he replaces Theocritus' Sicily and old bucolic hero, the impassioned oxherd Daphnis, with the impassioned voice of his contemporary Roman friend,
Hull_Museums: Hercules had a male companion called Hylas. The Sicilian poet Theocritus wrote about their love describing how Hercules loved the "charming Hylas, whose hair hung down in curls". Hylas was abducted by water nymphs and was never seen again, leaving Hercules heartbroken. (3of4)
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nekomatapoetry: Dryden translated works by Horace, Juvenal, Ovid, Lucretius, and Theocritus, a task which he found far more satisfying than writing for the stage. In 1694 he began work on what would be his most ambitious and defining work as translator, The Works of Virgil (1697),
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Duke202016: Peter Lamborn Wilson's wonderful bawdy Epigrams of Theocritus is out.
quintilian_bot: Theocritus is admirable in his own and his opponent's case will easily be solved by following the dictates of our own speech, but must none
typode: from "Theocritus: Idyl I" by William Carlos Williams
ZackMohr9: Theocritus. Moschus. Bion (Loeb Classical Library) [O0UTL8W]
StatusCode239: “Sameron adion asoI shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow”-Theocritus
Burnerbcbanned: Some Theocritus. Might continue after recovering from sleeplessness, or not.
AustinHattori: I LOVE when English translations of Greek texts abruptly switch to Latin bc the text is too scandalous. This is common in Victorian texts so I was surprised Gow was doing it as late as his 1952 edition of Theocritus.
Lokster71: Finished reading Idylls by Theocritus this morning. Theocritus was the 'founder' of bucolic poetry apparently. It was an interesting read, particularly some of the Goatherd and the Shepherd, which is - basically - an ancient Greek rap battle.
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robertsnickc: But thou, Goddess, farewell, and turn thy steeds to the Ocean stream,
And I will endure my misery still, even as I have borne it.
Farewell, bright-faced Selene; and farewell too, ye stars,
That follow the slow-moving chariot of the tranquil Night.
~Theocritus, Idylls.
jcolag: Sleeping, we image what awake we wish; Dogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.
Theocritus
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TheEgyptianHulk: ‘Egyptians are twisted and bitter people with a sense of humor,’ said Roman poet Theocritus.
Egyptians made fun of Ottoman rulers’ appearance, saying they were arrogant and overweight.” 2/2
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RandomQ85433955: While there’s life there’s hope, and only the dead have none.
~ Theocritus
(Idylls)
DylanPahman: Alexander Pushkin, "Eugene Onegin," 1.7:
Homer, Theocritus, he jeered,
But Adam Smith to read appeared,
And at economy was great;
That is, he could elucidate
How empires store of wealth unfold
...
The father scarcely understands
His son and mortgages his lands.
nicie_panetta: Best edition of Theocritus? Good things to read about his work?
oizysian: According to a scholion on Theocritus' Idylls, when Hera was heading toward Mount Thornax alone, Zeus created a terrible storm and transformed himself into a cuckoo bird who flew down and sat on her lap.
Ingrid77980505: Cupid Complaining to Venus by Lucas Cranach.Inspired by Theocritus’s poem:Cupid started to complain to his mother Then said his mother smiling, Are you not creature small just like the bee,I pray? But ne'ertheless it must not be forgot.The cruel wounds you deal how great are they
demerson19: 4 of 5 stars to Idylls by Theocritus
snarkylicious: “The complete works of Theocritus have been added to your Google library ”. Hunh. Forgot I had that.
aoristdual: I’m staying at a gorgeous place in Iceland that is so bucolic I believe Theocritus will be along any moment.
owlpolicies: I'm reading a translation Idylls by Theocritus that uses modern language while speeding through the idyllic British countryside and began crying at how humans have essentially remained the same people full of love and dreams and desires for thousands of years.
GundenBarlas: Theocritus (Idyll 17) hails Ptolemy Philadelphus as a demigod, and speaks of his father as seated among the gods along with Alexander.
VCelerina: Theocritus (Idyll 17) hails Ptolemy Philadelphus as a demigod, and speaks of his father as seated among the gods along with Alexander.
filippocesari: Theocritus (Idyll 17) hails Ptolemy Philadelphus as a demigod, and speaks of his father as seated among the gods along with Alexander.
wake_infinite: Other Girl and shadows multiplicating (il folsoletto nel falsoletto col laughsed at the Olden Times,222 [Theocritus.] American
