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, 2021 This paper explores the origins and formation of bucolic poetry as a distinct genre within the Theocritean corpus. We know little or nothing about the pre-Theocritean traditions on archetypal figures such as Daphnis or Comatas, but it is reasonable to suppose that their Theocritean counterparts resulted from substantial inventive reworking.
MASSIMILLA GIULIO
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Bucolic Experimentation in Theocritus’ Idyll 10
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2010 Idyll 10 departs from the conventions of the genre by juxtaposing the world of work with that of bucolic leisure in ways that undermine the idealized fiction of pastoral.
Jeffrey M. Hunt
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From Theocritean to Longan Bucolic: Eugenianus’ Drosilla and Charicles
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2012 Eugenianus’ novel, exploiting ancient bucolic poems, evokes first Theocritus and then Longus in order to move the portrayal of Eros from love as tormenting to love as propitious.
Joan B. Burton
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Theocritus and the Bucolic Genre [PDF]
, 2004 One of the chapters written by M. Fantuzzi in M. Fantuzzi and R. Hunter, "Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic poetry" Analysis of the the construction of the genre of "literary mime, and of its sub-genre bucolic poetry. Main emphasis on the idea of "Invention of a tradition" on behalf of Theocritus, and the dynamics between pastoral ideal of ...
FANTUZZI, Marco
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Rome's Bucolic Landscapes: Place, Prophecy, and Power in Aeneid VIII. [PDF]
Vergil’s Aeneid is a key text for the study of the Augustan regime’s justification of its unprecedented power. In the crucial settings of the bestowal of Aeneas’ Shield and the early site of Rome, book VIII gives evidence of a deep concern with the ...
Apostol, Ricardo Andres
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Bucolic Irony: A Close Reading of Theocritus Idyll One [PDF]
, 2022 Irony, like many abstract Greek nouns, is difficult to pin down to a single definition. Through his sonorous hexameters, Theocritus immediately recalls the Greek oral poetic tradition.
Field, Andrew
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Sociopoétiques, 2023 The episode of the beekeeper Aristaeus in Book IV of Virgil’s Georgics is the most striking manifestation of the generic complexity of this extraordinary work.
Vial
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Pallas, 2009 It is generaly assumed that Virgil’ s second Bucolic was written first. Our analysis is no demonstration of the rightness of that thesis but picks out in the poem a few incipient tendencies that were to become manifest throughout Virgil’ s work, such as ...
Marco Fernandelli
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Il meriggio nella natura Riflessioni estetiche su un’utopia poetica
Enthymema, 2013 There is a particular space-time combination in which poetry is meant to find its perfect place, its perfect happening: it’s the meridian moment, the midday spent in a locus amoenus singing and playing along with fellow-poets. It seems to be what Bachtin
Francesco Giusti
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Amarilis y la belleza de Zacinto
thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, 2020 Theocritus’ id. 4 has been considered by some scholars as an example of rural mime; the fact that the poem, a unique case in the Corpus Theocriteum, does not contain any pastoral song or contest contributes to the impression of ‘realism’.
Irene M. Weiss
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