# Idylis, Vol. 1

By **Theocritus**

- ISBN-13: 9780192839848
- Series: [Oxford World's Classics Ser](https://mybookbandits.com/series/oxford-worlds-classics-ser)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 138
- Published: 1 Oct 2003

## About this book

'Eucritus and I and pretty Amyntas turned aside To the farm of Phrasidamus, where we sank down With pleasure on deep-piled couches of sweet rushes, And vine leaves freshly stripped from the bush.' The Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse (first half of the third century BC) was the inventor of 'bucolic' poetry. These vign

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