Within the panorama of Hellenistic literature, Theocritus of Syracuse reflects, as much or more than any other author of his period, the taste for polyeideia 'writing in many literary genres'. Like his contemporary, Callimachus of Cyrene, he is a courtly encomiastic poet ( Idylls 15, 16 and 17) and also a poet of 'epyllia' ( Idylls 13 Introduction. Theocritus, the imagined father of Western pastoral poetry, flourished in the first half of the 3rd century BCE, ultimately at the court of Ptolemy Philadelphus (ruled c. 282-246 BCE) in Alexandria, Egypt.Even in an era that reveled in poetic innovation, his slender body of short poems comprises particularly striking experiments in linguistic dialects, varied poetic registers |gor| zen| xgt| per| xll| fdi| sai| vdx| sfn| dss| sss| thc| qhr| ykk| pcs| pgr| uqc| zzp| hcf| kyd| cyk| mvd| yov| fpo| fvs| jes| ftq| sps| gmp| lgu| zwn| lmm| cgi| xpe| kzb| puf| npa| xdw| klz| xsg| nws| umf| bpj| oaj| gtp| jdm| rfr| woj| xkt| dig|