Works

Idylls

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General Reference

Literature Atlas. "Idylls." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/idylls.

APA Style

Literature Atlas. (n.d.). Idylls. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/idylls

BibTeX

@misc{literatureatlas-idylls,
  author = {Literature Atlas},
  title = {Idylls},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://literature.interactiveatlas.org/works/idylls},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

A collection of pastoral poems by the Hellenistic Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse, regarded as the founding work of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry.

Facts

Disputed

Composed, From (Year)

from 275 BCE 1

Theocritus lived circa 300 BC to shortly after 260 BC; internal historical references date two of the individual poems (16 and 17) specifically to between 275 and 270 BC, but no comprehensive composition chronology survives for the collection as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.

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