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Theocritus (M)
Nationality: Greek.
Poet. Born c. 300 B. C. Died c. 260 B. C. Lived in Sicily. Credited as the creator of pastoral poetry. Biographical information: “Theocritus,” *Encyclopedia Brittanica*, 2020, <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theocritus>, (30 March 2020). (SCM)
Poems associated with this person
Total poems: 16
Poem title
Date
Periodical
Roles
id #
IV. (“Ah! wretched Thyrsis, what avail thy sighs”)
1835-11
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Poet
11602
X. (“Wend onward, goat-herd mine, along that lane”)
1836-04
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Poet
11773
VII. (“Tell, by the Nymphs! wilt thou for me essay”)
1836-05
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Poet
11785
“Come, by the nymphs, I pr’ythee play”
1837-04
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Poet
14130
The Syracusan Orthon warns you this
1837-04
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Poet
14133
The Honey Stealer
1837-04
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Poet
14136
The son of Pæon to Miletus came
1837-04
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Poet
14132
O, mortal, heed thy life, nor quit the port
1837-04
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Poet
14134
Ah! Thyrsis, weep no more: though both thine eyes
1837-04
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Poet
14131
The Honey Stealer
1837-04
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Poet
14137
From Theocritus. Idyll 17
1844
The Keepsake
Poet
5012
From Theocritus. Epigram V
1847
The Keepsake
Poet
5203
From Theocritus. Idyll the First
1866-02-24
Once a Week
Poet
13409
Theocritus.—Idyll I. Thyrsis and a Goatherd
1866-08
Macmillan’s Magazine
Poet
14323
The Unhappy Lover. (After Theocritus, Id. XXIII)
1867-08-10
Once a Week
Poet
13533
The Incantation. (From the Greek of Theocritus.—Id. II.)
1868-10
Macmillan’s Magazine
Poet
14248