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-400–-259 · 3rd-century BCE Greek poet

Also known as: Theokritos, Theocrates, Theokrit, Феокрит, ثيوقريطس, 테오크리토스

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Virgil-69–-18
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His Eclogues directly adapt the pastoral form, shepherd singing contests and rustic love laments of the Idylls. (AI reason)
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Bion of Smyrna-119–-56
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Writes Hellenistic bucolic poetry, including the Lament for Adonis, in the same pastoral mode and dialect tradition. (AI reason)
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Moschus-200–-200
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Composes short bucolic and mythological hexameter poems such as Europa in the Theocritean manner. (AI reason)
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Callimachus-305–-239
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Shares the refined, learned Alexandrian aesthetic of brief, polished poems and epigrams. (AI reason)
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Apollonius of Rhodes-294–-214
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Writes Hellenistic hexameter with mythological episodes like Hylas, also treated in the Idylls. (AI reason)
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Longus200–200
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Daphnis and Chloe transposes pastoral love and shepherd life into prose romance. (AI reason)
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Herodas-250–-250
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His Mimiambi offer realistic dramatic sketches of everyday life akin to the urban mimes of Idylls II and XV. (AI reason)
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Sappho-650–-569
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Lyric treatment of erotic longing and lament echoes the love poetry of the Idylls. (AI reason)
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Titus Calpurnius Siculus
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Latin eclogues continuing the Theocritean-Virgilian pastoral tradition. (AI reason)
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Edmund Spenser1552–1599
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The Shepheardes Calender revives classical pastoral eclogue with shepherd dialogues and laments. (AI reason)
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