A collection of pastoral poems by the Hellenistic Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse, regarded as the founding work of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry. 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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Composed, From (Year)Theocritus lived circa 300 BC to shortly after 260 BC; internal historical references date two of the individual poems (16 and 17) specifically to between 275 and 270 BC, but no comprehensive composition chronology survives for the collection as a whole, so the -275 value here anchors only to that datable pair, not the full collection. Classification
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the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry
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can only have been written within 275 and 270
- Authored By: Theocritus
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