Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry by Richard Hunter
By Richard Hunter
This ebook specializes in the hymns, mimes and erotic poems of the Greek poet Theocritus, and examines how Theocritus makes use of the traditions of prior Greek poetry to recreate prior kinds in a manner that exploits the hot stipulations below which poetry used to be written within the 3rd century BC. contemporary papyri have significantly elevated our knowing of ways Theocritus learn archaic poetry, and those new discoveries are absolutely drawn on in a suite of readings that would swap the way in which we glance at Hellenistic poetry.
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Griffiths to Harder Regtuit Wakker 1995. My translation is not intended to imply any particular meaning for (3ouKoAid£e<76ai in this 80 passage; the matter is, of course, hotly disputed. Cf. below p. g. 158. Puelma rightly notes that v. 41 expresses Simichidas' rivalry with them in terms of the 'bucolic agon'. 82 If this latter view seems greatly to exaggerate the importance of our evidence for any 'dispute' between Asclepiades and the Alexandrian Thilitans' (principally Callimachus), the former seems to restrict unnecessarily the range of poetry alluded to.
Berlin 1961) 183-93. 105-6 glances at Philitas' education of the young Ptolemy. For the general idea cf. F. 92 '[the catalogue] may be a masquerade of the courtiers themselves, for here Theocritus writes about the tutorial positions occupied by people like himself; Thomas 1995. Any teacher of Heracles, particularly Linus, could not afford to nod off, but Callimachus famously praises Aratus' dypuTTvia, and Aratus was, like Philitas, both a scholar and a poet; the Aratean Lives synchronise Aratus with Philitas, which may go back to an alleged link between them.
87 If this idea is along the right lines,88 then Lycidas is praised as a 'syrinx-player' because (on Bowie's reading) he is a 'bucolic' character, whereas Simichidas both plays the syrinx - for he too is a bucolic creation (of Theocritus) - and 'sings', like Tityros (v. 72) and Komatas (vv. 88-9), as being a poet (another Hesiod in fact, cf. v. 92). He proposes 'bucolic song' (whatever the precise meaning of the term) because of the rustic setting in which he finds himself (vv. 31-4) and because of Lycidas' presence, but in fact the range of his poetry is wide, as the references to Philitas and Asclepiades and the nature of the song he subsequently sings demonstrate.