Brill's companion to Theocritus / / edited by Poulheria Kyriakou, Evina Sistakou, Antonios Rengakos.

• Superior document: Brill's Companions in Classical Studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Kyriakou, Poulheria,; Sistakou, Evina,; Rengakos, Antonios,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions in classical studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Copyright Page /; Preface /; Notes on Contributors /; Introduction Modern Trends in the Study of Theocritus /; Chapter 1 A Poet's Lives /; Chapter 2 Theocritus' Textual History and Tradition /; Chapter 3 Theocritus' Dialects /; Chapter 4 "Linking Together Rushes and Stalks of Asphodel": The Forms of Theocritean Poetry /; Chapter 5 Theocritus and Bucolic Poetry /; Chapter 6 Performing Mime in the Idylls of Theocritus: Metrical Mime, Drama, and the "Everyday" in Theocritus, Idylls 2, 14, 15 /; Chapter 7 Theocritus' Hymns and "Epyllia": Poems 13, 22, 24, 26 /; Chapter 8 Generic Experimentation in the Epigrams of "Theocritus" /; Chapter 9 Theocritus and the Bucolic Homer /; Chapter 10 Pan's Pipes: Lyric Echoes and Contexts in Theocritus /; Chapter 11 Θεόκριτος κωμῳδοποιός: Comic Patterns and Structures in Theocritus' Bucolic Poems (with a Supplement on Tragic Patterns) /; Chapter 12 Ancient Scholarship on Theocritus /; Chapter 13 The Sweet Pleasures of Theocritus' Idylls : A Study in the Aesthetics of ἁδύτης /; Chapter 14 Theocritus' Contest Poems /; Chapter 15 The Programmatic Idylls of Theocritus /; Chapter 16 Theocritus and the Visual Arts /; Chapter 17 Myth and Narrative in Theocritus /; Chapter 18 Theocritean Spaces /; Chapter 19 Theocritus and the Rural World /; Chapter 20 Childhood and Youth in Theocritus /; Chapter 21 Eros and the Pastoral /; Chapter 22 Among the Cicadas: Theocritus and His Contemporaries /; Chapter 23 Rulers and Patrons in Theocritus /; Chapter 24 Theocritus' Intercultural Poetics /; Chapter 25 Gods and Religion in Theocritus /; Chapter 26 Women in Theocritus /; Chapter 27 [Theocritus]: The Early Reception of Theocritus /; Chapter 28 Sicilian Muses: Theocritus and Virgil's Eclogues /; Chapter 29 The King's Nectar: Theocritean Encomium and Augustan Poetry /; Chapter 30 Theocritus and Post-Virgilian Pastoral Tradition /; Chapter 31 Theocritus and Longus /; Chapter 32 "Simple Theocritus" from the 16th to 18th Centuries /; Chapter 33 Theocritus in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry /; Indexes /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004466711
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Poulheria Kyriakou, Evina Sistakou, Antonios Rengakos.

Through the variety of its scholarly perspectives, Brill Companion to Theocritus offers a tool for the study of one of antiquity's foremost poets. Offering a thorough examination of textual transmission, ancient commentaries, literary dialect, and poetic forms, the present volume considers Theocritus' work from novel theoretical perspectives, such as gender and emotions. It expands the usual field of inquiry to include religion, and the poet's reception in Late Antiquity and early modern times. The various chapters promote Theocritus' profile as an erudite poet, who both responds to and inaugurates a rich and variegated tradition. The combination of these various perspectives places Theocritus at the crossroads of Ptolemaic patronage, contemporary society, and art.