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192 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521865777
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 04 December 2007
Description
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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192 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521865777
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 04 December 2007
Description
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...