THEOCRITUS (THEOKRITOS).Biblio.com
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Theocriti Idyllia = Theocritus' Idylls; Commentariis Criticis Atque Exegeticis
1870000013332Lipsiae = Leipzig: B.G. Teubneri = B.G. Teubner 1870. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 9 4-315 6 pp. Contemporary green morocco with triple gilt borders on each board gilt decorations to the boards' edges and turn-ins spine in six compartments with gilt decorations and lettering; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound by Chambolle-Duru with the binder's stamp on the front board's bottom turn-in. Text in Ancient Greek with the commentary in Greek and Latin. Instruxit Adolf Theodore Arm. Fritzsche and Joannis Dorothei. With annotations selected by Christopher Wordsworth. In one comprehensive volume. Ramsden 81. Oxford Classical Dictionary 1498-1499. Theocritus was a poet from Syracuse and wrote at the Alexandrian court. He is credited with creating the bucolic genre of poetry. Theocritus' poems feature minor characters from the Odyssey as well as goatherds with a passion for poetry. Favorite themes of the poet include doomed love an individual's zeal for their dreams and art for the sake of art itself. A beautifully bound copy of the Hellenistic poet's work. Some rubbing to the boards' edges light rubbing to the joints. A bookseller's ticket from B.H. Blackwell's of Oxford. B.G. Teubneri [= B.G. Teubner] hardcover
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