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Headword: *qeo/kritos
Adler number: theta,166
Translated headword: Theokritos, Theocritus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Of Chios. Rhetor. Pupil of Metrodorus,[1] of the school of Isocrates.[2] He wrote Chreiai.[3] He was a political opponent of the historian Theopompus.[4] His history of Libya is extant, and remarkable letters. There is also another Theocritus,[5] the son of Praxagoras and Philinna (though others [say], of Simmichas); of Syracuse (though others [say] that he was from Cos and migrated to Syracuse). This man wrote the so-called Bucolics in the Doric dialect. Some also attribute to him the following works: Proetides; Hopes; hymns; funeral songs; elegies and iambi; epigrams.
Note that there were three Bucolic poets: this Theocritus, Moschus of Sicily,[6] and Bion of Smyrna (from an insignificant place called Phlosse).[7]
Greek Original:
*qeo/kritos, *xi=os, r(h/twr, maqhth\s *mhtrodw/rou tou= *)isokratikou=. e)/graye *xrei/as: a)ntepoliteu/sato de\ *qeopo/mpw| tw=| i(storikw=|. fe/retai au)tou= i(stori/a *libu/hs kai\ e)pistolai\ qauma/siai. e)/sti kai\ e(/teros *qeo/kritos, *pracago/rou kai\ *fili/nnhs, oi( de\ *simmi/xou: *surakou/sios, oi( de/ fasi *kw=|on: metw/|khse de\ e)n *surakou/sais. ou(=tos e)/graye ta\ kalou/mena *boukolika\ e)/ph *dwri/di diale/ktw|. tine\s de\ a)nafe/rousin ei)s au)to\n kai\ tau=ta: *proiti/das, *)elpi/das, *(/umnous, *(hrwi/+nas, *)epikh/deia me/lh, e)legei/as kai\ i)a/mbous, e)pigra/mmata. i)ste/on de\ o(/ti trei=s gego/nasi *boukolikw=n e)pw=n poihtai/, *qeo/kritos ou(tosi/, *mo/sxos *sikeliw/ths kai\ *bi/wn o( *smurnai=os, e)/k tinos xwridi/ou kaloume/nou *flw/sshs.
Notes:
RE Theokritos(2); FGrH 760.
[1] RE Metrodoros (24).
[2] iota 652: Isocrates.
[3] Maxims: see generally LSJ s.v. xrei/a, V.
[4] theta 172: Theopompus. On Theocritus and Theopompus, specifically, see M.A. Flower, Theopompus of Chios (Oxford 1994) 23-4 and 207-9.
[5] RE Theokritos(1); OCD4 Theocritus.
[6] mu 1278: Moschus.
[7] RE Bion(6); OCD4 Bion(2).
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; mythology; poetry; politics; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 13 June 2001@15:23:26.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes; added keyword; cosmetics) on 14 June 2001@04:20:03.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 20 November 2005@10:32:52.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 31 December 2012@08:42:00.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 3 January 2013@00:33:49.
David Whitehead (updated 2 refs) on 2 August 2014@10:52:56.

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