Theocritus

Person · Open Library

Born

310 B.C.

Died

260 B.C.

Works

164

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

6

Total plays

41

Little is known of him beyond what can be inferred from his writings. We must, however, handle these with some caution, since some of the poems (Idylls) commonly attributed to him have little claim to authenticity. It is clear that at a very early date two collections were made, one of which included a number of doubtful poems and formed a corpus of bucolic poetry, while the other was confined to those works which were considered to be by Theocritus himself. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Th

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5 total works indexed

1. The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 3: Poems 1685–1692

   · 1969 · cited 7x

2. The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 2: Poems 1681–1684

   · 1972 · cited 4x

3. Poems

   · 1912 · cited 2x

4. Idylls

   · 2015 · cited 1x

5. Idyllium the 23rd. The Despairing Lover

   · 1685

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Quotes

• “ἅδιον, ὦ ποιμήν, τὸ τεὸν μέλος ἢ τὸ καταχὲςτῆν᾿ ἀπὸ τᾶς πέτρας καταλείβεται ὑψόθεν ὕδωρ.”
• “ἠνίδε σιγῇ μὲν πόντος, σιγῶντι δ᾿ ἀῆται,ἁ δ᾿ ἐμὰ οὐ σιγῇ στέρνων ἔντοσθεν ἀνία.”
• “ἐλπίδες ἐν ζωοῖσιν, ἀνέλπιστοι δὲ θανόντες.”
• “ἦ γὰρ ἔρωτιπολλάκις, ὦ Πολύφημε, τὰ μὴ καλὰ καλὰ πέφανται.”
• “τὰν παρεοῖσαν ἄμελγε· τί τὸν φεύγοντα διώκεις;”
• “οἱ δὲ ποθεῦντες ἐν ἤματι γηράσκουσιν.”

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