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The Idylls - Theocritus, and Merrill, Rodney (Translated by)
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Theocritus lived in the age called Hellenistic, following the conquests of Alexander the Great, which greatly increased the ascendancy of Greek culture. Both his poetry and what we can infer from it about his life display the cosmopolitanism that the widespread empire and its successors encouraged: he appears to have been familiar with at least Sicily, Miletus, Cos (an island near Anatolia), Athens and Alexandria, the two cultural capitals of the Greek world. Though best known to literary historians as the initiator of the ...

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The Idylls 2022, Lulu.com

ISBN-13: 9781794725706

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Idylls 2008, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780199552429

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Idylls 2003, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780192839848

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The Idylls 1989, Penguin Group, London, England

ISBN-13: 9780140445237

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