Theocritus

忒奥克里托斯（希腊语：Θεόκριτος，约前310年—前250年），为古希腊著名诗人、学者，是西方田园诗派的创始人。早年曾在亚历山大学习，后返回西西里岛生活。一生从事诗歌创造，最为出名的成就还是田园诗歌的创作。在此之前的所谓的田园诗歌只是一种与音乐结合起来的民间创作，而忒奥克里托斯则将它彻底转化为一种纯文学体裁。在他之后，田园诗派得到了巨大的发展，并逐渐成为欧洲文学中的主流体裁。

版本

Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow: Bucolici Graeci. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1952。权威版本，希腊原文与英文对照。

古注

Carl Wendel: Scholia in Theocritum vetera. B. G. Teubner, Stuttgart 1914.

延伸阅读

Bowie, Ewen L. 1985. "Theocritus' Seventh Idyll, Philetas and Longus." Classical Quarterly 35:67–91.

Burton, Joan B. 1995. Theocritus's Urban Mimes: Mobility, Gender, and Patronage. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Damon, Cynthia. 1995. "Narrative and Mimesis in the Idylls of Theocritus." Quaderni urbinati di cultura classica 51:101–123.

Garson, R. W. 1971. "Theocritean Elements in Virgil's Eclogues." Classical Quarterly 21:188–203.

Griffiths, Frederick T. 1979. Theocritus at Court. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

Gutzwiller, Kathryn J. 1996. "The Evidence for Theocritean Poetry Books." In Theocritus. Edited by Annette Harder, R. F. Regtuit, and G. C. Wakker, 119–148. Groningen, The Netherlands: E. Forsten.

Fantuzzi, Marco, and Theodore D. Papanghelis, eds. 2006. Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

Hubbard, Thomas K. 1998. The Pipes of Pan: Intertextuality and Literary Filiation in the Pastoral Tradition from Theocritus to Milton. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Hunter, Richard L. 1996. Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Köhnken, Adolf. 2001. "Hellenistic Chronology: Theocritus, Callimachus, and Apollonius Rhodes." In Companion to Apollonius Rhodius. Edited by Theodore D. Papanghelis and Antonios Rengakos, 73–92. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.