Before Pastoral
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| Author | David M. Halperin |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Theocritus |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
Publication date | 1983 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 289 |
| ISBN | 978-0300025828 |
Before Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry is a 1983 book about Theocritus by the classicist David M. Halperin.
Reception
Before Pastoral was praised by the literary scholar Timothy Saunders, who writes that it "still offers the most finely argued case for upholding the distinction between the two categories of 'bucolic' and 'pastoral'."[1]
References
Footnotes
- ^ Saunders 2006. p. 3.
Bibliography
- Books
- Saunders, Timothy (2006). Skoie, Mathilde; Velázquez, Sonia Bjørnstad (eds.). Pastoral and the Humanities: Arcadia Re-inscribed. Bristol Phoenix Press. ISBN 978-1904675587.
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