Word: theocritus
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Every book carried is a Penguin book, and the store carry almost every one. Indeed, it claims to have every Penguin title, although one reporter went in looking for a translation of Theocritus, and Penguin didn't have...
...been fairly odious; its image was not Arcadia but Dante's dark wood, a labyrinth of fear and self-loss, full of bears, wolves and demons. The conditions of medieval labor did not, to put it mildly, foster belief in happy flute-playing rustics. The rediscovery of Vergil and Theocritus changed that. First in poetry and then in painting, the glimmering, closed Theocritean landscape where gods and shepherds pursue nymphs and shepherdesses amid the boskage was reconstructed. You know, looking at Dosso Dossi's The Three Ages of Man, about 1520-25, that its vision of harmonies between childhood, vigorous...
...Peloponnese, it just sat there until Theocritus...
...practice, Classics 206 relies on a couple of textbooks on Greek sports, plus the classics' numerous chorals to coordination, such as Pindar's Odes to victorious athletes or Theocritus' blow-by-blow description of fancy-dan Polydeucus outboxing Heavyweight Amycus, which may well be the origin of a human myth most recently disproved by Sonny Liston...
...launched its nyth season. In effect, Lennie was trying to bring the program notes to life, using the technique that he made familiar on his Omnibus music-appreciation series. His explanation: "How many times have you sat there and had a new piece of music thrown at you by Theocritus Schwartz or John Foster Doe and longed for something that would bring the piece closer...