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A Short Biography of Theocritus

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Theocritus

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Theocritus

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300

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Creator of ancient Greek Bucolic Poetry                          
                          
                          
                          
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Bucolic Poetry or Bucolics [bew‐kol‐ik], another term for pastoral poetry, especially for Virgil's Eclogues (42–37 BCE) and later imitations. More loosely, any verse on rustic subjects.

See also eclogue, idyll.

Some of the poems - Idylls, commonly attributed to him have little claim to authenticity.