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The Idylls, Epigrams, and Epitaphs
Year
2011
Language
ENGLISH
Publication Information
Neeland Media LLC
Summary
This edition contains the idylls, epigrams and epitaphs of Theocritus, which include his most famous stories about Daphnis, the mythological shepherd who died of unrequited love, and Cyclops, as well as poems to Hiero and Ptolemy. His poetry influenced such writers as Moschus of Syracuse, Virgil, John Milton and Percy Bysshe Shelley.