The Pastoral Narcissus: A Study of the First Idyll of TheocritusIn The Pastoral Narcissus, the only book-length treatment of the First Idyll of Theocritus, Clayton Zimmerman returns to a more philological consideration of the major problems in the text, keeping in sight the best recent scholarship. Zimmerman demonstrates that Theocritus is clearly evoking the Narcissus myth, and in doing so provides readers with the first complete study of that myth since 1860. He then uses his reading of Daphnis to inform other bucolic poems in the corpus, and to expose the connections between Daphnis and a Theocritean ideal of poetic composition. |
Contents
Tracing the Narcissus Myth | 1 |
An Introduction to The Trouble with Daphnis | 25 |
Rereading the Song of Thyrsis | 39 |
Daphnis in the Context of the First Idyll | 75 |
Appendix | 93 |
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About the Author | |
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Aelian Ameinias Aphrodite beautiful Boeotian bucolic Cairns Callistratus character Comatas Conon context Corinna cowherd Daphnis Daphnis myth death describes desire discussion Echo Eclogue ecphrasis eighth Idyll elements epic Eros erotic melting Eutelidas evidence evil-eye figure final flower gaze goatherd goddess Gow's translation Greek Halperin 1983b Hellenistic period Hellenistic poetry herdsmen Hermes Hermesianax Hippolytus Homeric Idyll lines Idyll of Theocritus interpretation literary lover maiden Muses myth of Narcissus mythological narcissus flower Narcissus myth Narcissus story Narkissos narrative nymph Oropus Ovid Metamorphoses Ovid's Pausanias perhaps Phaedrus Plutarch poem poet poetic Polyphemus Priapus reflection scene Schachter scholars scholion Segal Servius seventh Idyll significant sixth Idyll Song of Thyrsis Sositheus statue Stesichorus Strabo suitors syrinx Tanagra Theocritean Theocritus Idyll Thespians third century B.C. Virgil wasting withering youth βασκανία γὰρ Δάφνις δὲ ἐν ἐπὶ ἔρωτα ἔρωτος καὶ κώρα μὲν οὐ οὐκ τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τοῦ τῶν ὡς