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312 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521291071
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12 May 1977
Description
Pastoral poetry was probably the creation of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus, and he was certainly its most distinguished exponent in Greek. Vergil not only transposed the spirit of Greek pastoral into an Italian setting, blending details from the...
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312 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521291071
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12 May 1977
Description
Pastoral poetry was probably the creation of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus, and he was certainly its most distinguished exponent in Greek. Vergil not only transposed the spirit of Greek pastoral into an Italian setting, blending details from the...