Download or read book Idylls written by Theocritus and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new annotated translation of the Greek poems of Theocritus of Syracuse (first half of the third century BC), the inventor of "bucolic" or "pastoral" poetry, the principal model for Virgil in the Eclogues, and hence a major figure in the literary traditions that antiquity bequeathed to Western literature.