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2023
Abstract This book discusses many of Theocritus’s Idylls with emphasis on how these poems construct space—its contours and borders along with the people, animals, and objects that fill it and the equally important role of absence. It draws on spatial theory from anthropology and cultural geography.
William G Thalmann
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Abstract This book discusses many of Theocritus’s Idylls with emphasis on how these poems construct space—its contours and borders along with the people, animals, and objects that fill it and the equally important role of absence. It draws on spatial theory from anthropology and cultural geography.
William G Thalmann
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Notes and Queries1990
Abstract Hylas is seized by nymphs-not the nymphs of epic, but the kind that haunt the ordinary countryside, the forebears perhaps of ledonnedifuora (known also as donne di note, cf. 45 fin.) of Theocritus‘ homeland: fond of dancing, sleep less, attracted by handsome humans, dangerous and often lethal but given also to displays of ...
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Abstract Hylas is seized by nymphs-not the nymphs of epic, but the kind that haunt the ordinary countryside, the forebears perhaps of ledonnedifuora (known also as donne di note, cf. 45 fin.) of Theocritus‘ homeland: fond of dancing, sleep less, attracted by handsome humans, dangerous and often lethal but given also to displays of ...
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The Classical Quarterly, 1971
In a masterly study of the language and motifs of Theocritus’ Thalysia, Dr. G. Giangrande has demonstrated that what the poem relates is the mock-investiture of Simichidas, the naïve young townsman and littérateur, performed with almost malicious irony by the goatherd Lycidas, who sees through, and ridicules, Simichidas’ rustic and poetic pretensions.1
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In a masterly study of the language and motifs of Theocritus’ Thalysia, Dr. G. Giangrande has demonstrated that what the poem relates is the mock-investiture of Simichidas, the naïve young townsman and littérateur, performed with almost malicious irony by the goatherd Lycidas, who sees through, and ridicules, Simichidas’ rustic and poetic pretensions.1
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