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Greek Bucolic Poets: Theocritus. Bion. Moschus by Theocritus, Bion of Smyrna, J.M. Edmonds, Moschus

assimbya's review

3.0

This book made me want to study Greek. While the often staid, ninety-year-old translations were fairly uninspired, it was a mildly exhaustive collection of poetry not frequently seen outside of Classics departments (Theocritus, maybe more frequently. But Bion and Moschus?), and I enjoyed the inclusion of works not to be found in my other collections, particularly the pattern poems, which is a genre of which I was not aware and now will have to examine further. The inclusion of the original Greek text alongside the English translation will, I do hope, come in handy at some point in my life.