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Theocritus

active Syracuse, Siciliy, 300 BCE - 260 BCE

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found: Brill's new Pauly online, 14 April 2014 (Theocritus; ?????«”??·??????; Greek poet of the 3rd century BC; main work: Idylls; from Syracuse, but spent much of his life on Cos and in Alexandria)

Biography:
Theocritus

Gender: male

Nationality: Greek

Activity: Greek poet

(born c. 300, Syracuse, Sicily-died 260 BC) Greek poet. Little is known of his life. His surviving poems consist of bucolics and mimes, set in the country, and epics, lyrics, and epigrams, set in towns. The bucolics, his most characteristic and influential works, introduced the pastoral convention into poetry and were the sources of Virgil's Eclogues and much Renaissance poetry and drama. Theocritus's best-known idylls include Thyrsis, a lament for Daphnis, the shepherd poet of mythology, and Thalysia (“Harvest Festival”), which presents the poet's friends and rivals in the guise of rustics.
("Theocritus". 2014. In Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, Encyclopaedia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed October 2015.www.credoreference.com.)

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