A Greek poet from Sicily, Magna Graecia, credited as the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry. His Idylls, especially numbers 1, 6, 7 and 11, are the founding texts of the pastoral genre, later adapted into Latin by the Roman poet Virgil. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Death YearThe source states he died after 260 BCE, not in that year; recorded as circa for lack of a more precise date. Classification
Original Language Theocritus
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Pastoral, Genres Theocritus is the pastoral genre's founding poet; the genre's own origin-place fact already names him.
Source Theocritus (Wikipedia)
In Genre
Idylls already in-genre Pastoral; Theocritus himself carried no in-genre edge to it.
Source Theocritus (Wikipedia)
Influenced
Virgil's Eclogues are modelled on Theocritus's pastoral Idylls, the same seam already reflected on both authors' shared associated-with edge to the Pastoral genre.
Source Virgil (Wikipedia)
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1. Theocritus (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead section
Theocritus (born c. 300 BC, died after 260 BC) was a Greek poet from Sicily, Magna Graecia, and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry.
Original language statement
300 BC, died after 260 BC) was a Greek poet from Sicily, Magna Graecia, and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry.
- Associated With: Pastoral
- Works Attributed: Idylls
In Genre: Pastoral, Lead section, pastoral poetry origin
Theocritus was a Greek poet from Sicily, Magna Graecia, and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry.
In Genre: Pastoral, Opening paragraph, creator of pastoral poetry
was a Greek poet from Sicily, Magna Graecia, and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry.
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Wikimedia FoundationInfluenced: Virgil, Eclogues sectionQuote, Influenced: Virgil, Eclogues section
The Eclogues (from the Greek for 'selections') are a group of ten poems roughly modelled on the bucolic ('pastoral' or 'rural') poetry of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus.
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