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subject	book bibliographic info
theocritus	Alexiou and Cairns (2017), Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After. 301, 355, 365 Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 90, 98, 99 Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 298 Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 96 Cairns (1989), Virgil's Augustan Epic. 12 Castagnoli and Ceccarelli (2019), Greek Memories: Theories and Practices, 7, 13, 101, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277 Cosgrove (2022), Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine, 136, 137 Del Lucchese (2019), Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture, 23 Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 22, 91, 92, 112, 358 Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 9, 22, 37, 38, 46, 73, 82, 83, 140, 142, 143, 144, 147, 152, 153, 154, 160 Faulkner and Hodkinson (2015), Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek Hymns, 61, 63, 255 Geljon and Runia (2013), Philo of Alexandria: On Cultivation: Introduction, Translation and Commentary, 193, 247, 264 Gorain (2019), Language in the Confessions of Augustine, 53, 54, 60, 68 Graverini (2012), Literature and Identity in The Golden Ass of Apuleius. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 56, 169 Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 113 Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 204 Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 231, 322 Konig and Wiater (2022), Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue, 332, 355 KÃ¶nig (2012), Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture, 260 König and Wiater (2022), Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue, 332, 355 Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 93, 97 Lightfoot (2021), Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World, 36, 37 Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 48, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 113 Mackay (2022), Animal Encounters in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica, 121 Marincola et al. (2021), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians, 88, 89, 90 Masterson (2016), Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood. 18, 32, 173 Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 25, 31, 33, 34, 39, 50, 51, 52, 104 Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 182, 183, 214, 215 Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 69, 102 Pausch and Pieper (2023), The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches: Contexts and Perspectives, 130, 135, 141, 145 Pinheiro et al. (2018), Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel, 265, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 274 Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 220, 221, 231, 232, 236, 237, 238, 239, 251, 252 Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 97 Sly (1990), Philo's Perception of Women, 30 Verhelst and Scheijnens (2022), Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity: Form, Tradition, and Context, 105 Xinyue (2022), Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry, 42, 43, 46, 47, 48, 53, 56 Yona (2018), Epicurean Ethics in Horace: The Psychology of Satire, 32
theocritus, addressee of cal. ep.	Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 52, 195
theocritus, and longus, daphnis, in	Cueva et al. (2018a), Re-Wiring the Ancient Novel. Volume 1: Greek Novels, 22
theocritus, cyclops, in	Boeghold (2022), When a Gesture Was Expected: A Selection of Examples from Archaic and Classical Greek Literature. 27, 28
theocritus, helen, in	Castagnoli and Ceccarelli (2019), Greek Memories: Theories and Practices, 266, 267, 268, 269, 271, 272, 273, 276, 277
theocritus, idyll	Verhelst and Scheijnens (2022), Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity: Form, Tradition, and Context, 24
theocritus, idylls	Cosgrove (2022), Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine, 42, 132, 133, 134
theocritus, nicias, in	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 496, 498
theocritus, of chios	Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 73, 414
theocritus, poet	Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 190, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236
theocritus, refrains	Cosgrove (2022), Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine, 238
theocritus, simaetha, figure in	Brule (2003), Women of Ancient Greece, 168, 169

List of validated texts:

15 validated results for "theocritus"

1. Hesiod, Shield, 314-317 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Theocritus

Found in books: Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 130; Lightfoot (2021), Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World, 36

sup>315 πᾶν δὲ συνεῖχε σάκος πολυδαίδαλον, οἳ δὲ κατʼ αὐτὸν' ' None

sup>315 and enclosed all the cunning work of the shield. Over it swans were soaring and calling loudly, and many others were swimming upon the surface of the water; and near them were shoals of fish. A wonderful thing the great strong shield was to see—even for Zeus the loud-thunderer, by whose will Hephaestus made it ' ' None

2. Hesiod, Theogony, 24-25, 96 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Theocritus • Theocritus, Idyll • Theocritus, poet

Found in books: Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 90; Hunter (2018), The Measure of Homer: The Ancient Reception of the Iliad, 230; Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 190, 216, 217; Xinyue (2022), Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry, 46, 47, 48

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24 τόνδε δέ με πρώτιστα θεαὶ πρὸς μῦθον ἔειπον,'²⁵ Μοῦσαι Ὀλυμπιάδες, κοῦραι Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο· ⁹⁶ ἐκ δὲ Διὸς βασιλῆες· ὃ δʼ ὄλβιος, ὅν τινα Μοῦσαι ' None

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24 By them to sing adeptly as he brought'²⁵ His sheep to pasture underneath the gaze ⁹⁶ Their undertakings and unswervingly ' None

3. None, None, nan (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Theocritus • Theocritus, addressee of Cal. ep.

Found in books: Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 130; Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 52; Waldner et al. (2016), Burial Rituals, Ideas of Afterlife, and the Individual in the Hellenistic World and the Roman Empire, 43

4. None, None, nan (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Idylls (Theocritus) • Nicias, In Theocritus • Theocritus • Theocritus, • Theocritus, Idylls • Theocritus, poet • Theokritos, poet • audience, in Theocritus Idylls • ekphrasis,, in Theocritus • weaving, in Theocritus

Found in books: Cairns (1989), Virgil's Augustan Epic. 12; Cosgrove (2022), Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine, 134; Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 22, 91; Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 9, 37, 38, 82, 144; Farrell (2021), Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity, 155; Faulkner and Hodkinson (2015), Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek Hymns, 61; Goldhill (2022), The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity, 302; Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 37, 38, 44, 45, 81, 82, 83, 130; Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196, 197, 200; Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236; Konig and Wiater (2022), Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue, 355; König and Wiater (2022), Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue, 355; Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 105, 106, 107, 108; Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 31, 33, 34; Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 221, 231, 232, 236, 237, 251, 252; Stavrianopoulou (2013), Shifting Social Imaginaries in the Hellenistic Period: Narrations, Practices and Images, 226; Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 106; Xinyue (2022), Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry, 46, 47, 48, 53; de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 498

5. None, None, nan (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Theocritus • Theocritus, poet

Found in books: Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 90; Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 190

6. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 4.84 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Theocritus,

Found in books: Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 587; Marincola et al. (2021), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians, 90

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4.84 1. \xa0At this time we shall endeavour to set forth what the myths relate concerning Daphnis. There are in Sicily, namely, the Heraean Mountains, which, men say, are naturally well suited, by reason of the beauty and special character of the region round about, to relaxation and enjoyment in the summer season. For they possess many springs of exceptionally sweet water and are full of trees of every description. On them also is a multitude of great oak-trees which bear fruit of extraordinary size, since it is twice as large as any that grows in other lands. And they possess as well some of the cultivated fruits, which have sprung up of their own accord, since the vine is found there in profusion and tree-fruits in quantities beyond telling.,2. \xa0Consequently the area once supported a Carthaginian army when it was facing starvation, the mountains supplying many tens of thousands of soldiers with sources of food for their unfailing sustece. It was in this region, where there were glens filled with trees and meet for a god and a grove consecrated to the Nymphs, that, as the myths relate, he who was known as Daphnis was born, a son of Hermes and a Nymph, and he, because of the sweet bay (daphnÃª) which grew there in such profusion and so thick, was given the name Daphnis.,3. \xa0He was reared by Nymphs, and since he possessed very many herds of cattle and gave great attention to their care, he was for this reason called by the name Bucolus or "Neatherd." And being endowed with an unusual gift of song, he invented the bucolic or pastoral poem and the bucolic song which continues to be so popular throughout Sicily to the present day.,4. \xa0The myths add that Daphnis accompanied Artemis in her hunting, serving the goddess in an acceptable manner, and that with his shepherd\'s pipe and singing of pastoral songs he pleased her exceedingly. The story is also told the one of the Nymphs became enamoured of him and prophesied to him that if he lay with any other woman he would be deprived of his sight; and indeed, when once he had been made drunken by a daughter of a king and had lain with her, he was deprived of his sight in accordance with the prophecy delivered by the Nymph. As for Daphnis, then, let what we have said suffice.'' None

7. Horace, Sermones, 1.8 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Theocritus,

Found in books: Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 112; Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 113

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1.8 However, they acknowledge themselves so far, that they were the Egyptians, the Chaldeans, and the Phoenicians (for I will not now reckon ourselves among them) that have preserved the memorials of the most ancient and most lasting traditions of mankind; ^1.8 When this man had reigned thirteen years, after him reigned another, whose name was Beon, for forty-four years; after him reigned another, called Apachnas, thirty-six years and seven months; after him Apophis reigned sixty-one years, and then Jonias fifty years and one month; '' None

8. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Theocritus

Found in books: Konig and Wiater (2022), Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue, 332; König and Wiater (2022), Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue, 332

9. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Idylls (Theocritus) • Theocritus

Found in books: Graverini (2012), Literature and Identity in The Golden Ass of Apuleius. 16; Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 42

10. Dio Chrysostom, Orations, 18.6-18.8 (1st cent. CE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Theocritus

Found in books: Konig and Wiater (2022), Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue, 332; König and Wiater (2022), Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue, 332

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18.6 \xa0So first of all, you should know that you have no need of toil or exacting labour; for although, when a man has already undergone a great deal of training, these contribute very greatly to his progress, yet if he has had only a little, they will lessen his confidence and make him diffident about getting into action; just as with athletes who are unaccustomed to the training of the body, such training weakens them if they become fatigued by exercises which are too severe. But just as bodies unaccustomed to toil need anointing and moderate exercise rather than the training of the gymnasium, so you in preparing yourself for public speaking have need of diligence which has a tempering of pleasure rather than laborious training. So let us consider the poets: I\xa0would counsel you to read Meder of the writers of Comedy quite carefully, and Euripides of the writers of Tragedy, and to do so, not casually by reading them to yourself, but by having them read to you by others, preferably by men who know how to render the lines pleasurably, but at any rate so as not to offend. For the effect is enhanced when one is relieved of the preoccupation of reading. <' "^18.7 \xa0And let no one of the more 'advanced' critics chide me for selecting Meder's plays in preference to the Old Comedy, or Euripides in preference to the earlier writers of Tragedy. For physicians do not prescribe the most costly diet for their patients, but that which is salutary. Now it would be a long task to enumerate all the advantages to be derived from these writers; indeed, not only has Meder's portrayal of every character and every charming trait surpassed all the skill of the early writers of Comedy, but the suavity and plausibility of Euripides, while perhaps not completely attaining to the grandeur of the tragic poet's way of deifying his characters, or to his high dignity, are very useful for the man in public life; and furthermore, he cleverly fills his plays with an abundance of characters and moving incidents, and strews them with maxims useful on all occasions, since he was not without acquaintance with philosophy. <" '^18.8 \xa0But Homer comes first and in the middle and last, in that he gives of himself to every boy and adult and old man just as much as each of them can take. Lyric and elegiac poetry too, and iambics and dithyrambs are very valuable for the man of leisure, but the man who intends to have a public career and at the same time to increase the scope of his activities and the effectiveness of his oratory, will have no time for them. <'' None

11. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Theocritus • Theocritus,

Found in books: Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 112; Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 38

12. None, None, nan (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Theocritus,

Found in books: Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 587; Marincola et al. (2021), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians, 90

13. Anon., Letter of Aristeas, 292
Tagged with subjects: • Theocritus

Found in books: Morrison (2020), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography, 182; Salvesen et al. (2020), Israel in Egypt: The Land of Egypt as Concept and Reality for Jews in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period, 252

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292 These results are achieved through the influence of the ruler, when he is a man who hates evil and loves the good and devotes his energies to saving the lives of men, just as you consider injustice the worst form of evil and by your just administration have fashioned for yourself an undying reputation, since God bestows upon you a mind which is pure and untainted by any evil.'"" None

14. Vergil, Eclogues, 1.1, 1.5, 1.19-1.21, 1.23-1.24, 1.33-1.35, 3.58, 6.10, 6.64, 8.68-8.72, 10.22
Tagged with subjects: • Idylls (Theocritus) • Theocritus • Theocritus, • Theocritus, Idylls • Theocritus, refrains • ekphrasis,, in Theocritus

Found in books: Cosgrove (2022), Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine, 238; Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 22; Farrell (2021), Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity, 296; Graverini (2012), Literature and Identity in The Golden Ass of Apuleius. 15, 16; Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 56; Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 38, 44; Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 113; Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 106; Xinyue (2022), Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry, 42, 43, 46, 48

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1.1 You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy" ^1.5 Exiled from home am I; while, Tityrus, you' "^1.19 for 'mid the hazel-thicket here but now" '^1.20 he dropped her new-yeaned twins on the bare flint, ^1.21 hope of the flock—an ill, I mind me well, ^1.23 the thunder-stricken oak foretold, oft too' "^1.24 from hollow trunk the raven's ominous cry." ^1.33 as cypress above pliant osier towers. MELIBOEUS ^1.34 And what so potent cause took you to TITYRUS ^1.35 Freedom, which, though belated, cast at length ^3.58 pliant acanthus, Orpheus in the midst, ^6.10 to the slim oaten reed my silvan lay. ^6.64 as with a beast to mate, though many a time ^8.68 Now let the wolf turn tail and fly the sheep, ^8.69 tough oaks bear golden apples, alder-tree ^8.70 bloom with narcissus-flower, the tamarisk ^8.71 weat with rich amber, and the screech-owl vie ^8.72 in singing with the swan: let Tityru ^10.22 of us they feel no shame, poet divine;' " None

15. Vergil, Georgics, 4.488
Tagged with subjects: • Theocritus • Theocritus, Idylls

Found in books: Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 130; Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 106

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4.488 cum subita incautum dementia cepit amantem,'' None

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4.488 “Take beakers of Maconian wine,” she said,'' None

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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