The Green Cabinet: Theocritus and the European Pastoral Lyric

A. S. F. Gow ancient pastoral animals Anthol Arcadia Aristophanes Athenaeus beauty bower bucolic Bucoliques Callimachus Calpurnius Chapter characters cited comparison contest critics critus Cyclops Daphnis Dicaearchus drama E. K. Chambers Eclogue elegy Empson English Pastoral epic Epicurean Epicurus epigrams especially example Faunus feeling flowers frag freedom genre goat goatherd gods Golden Age Greek grove Hellenistic herdsmen Hesiodic Homer Horace humor Idyll landscape lines literary literature locus amoenus lover Lucretius Lycidas means melancholy Menalcas Milton's mood motif naiveté nature non-pastoral Nymphs otium passion pastoral lament pastoral lyric pastoral poem Pastoral Poetry pastoral tradition pastoralists pathetic fallacy philosophical pipe pleasance poet poetic Poggioli ponos praise priamel Purney Renaissance René Rapin Roman rustic satire scene sense sheep shepherd similes simplicity singer singing song Spenser Stoic suggest theme Theo Theocritean pastoral Theocritus Thyrsis trope verse Virgil Virgil's Eclogues Virgilian writing καὶ