Idylls of Theokritos / Edition 1

by Barriss Mills

Overview

These thirty Idylls, written by the Sicilian Theokritos in the third century B.C., present the charms of rustic life in learned, polished verse aimed at a sophisticated audience. A bucolic paradise is seen "through the eyes of city men going to the harvest festival for a holiday, to rest their bodies and minds for awhile in nature's beauty and bounty-not unprovided with well-aged wine." In this handsome volume, which won the Best Poetry Award at the 1963 Indiana Author's Day, Professor Mills translates them into modern English verse that preserves the pastoral quality of the original but emphasizes those qualities of Theokritos that speak most directly to the modern reader.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780911198058
Publisher:	Purdue University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1963
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Barriss Mills is the author of two volumes of poetry – The Black and White Geometry and Parvenus and Ancestors – and has contributed poems and prose to many magazines.

Editorial Reviews

"Most engaging . . . it is a delight." —Scrip

From the Publisher

Barriss Mills gives us verse which is skillful, quiet, and unpretentious.”

Quartet

Quartet

Most engaging . . . it is a delight.”

Scrip

Scrip