Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction by Mark Payne

Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction

Mark Payne

192 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

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The bucolic Idylls of Theocritus are the first literature to invent a fully fictional world that is not an image of reality but an alternative to it. It is thereby distinguished from the other Idylls and from Hellenistic poetry as a whole. This bo...

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