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Before Pastoral

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Before Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry
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AuthorDavid M. Halperin
LanguageEnglish
SubjectTheocritus
PublisherYale University Press
Publication date
1983
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages289
ISBN978-0300025828

Before Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry is a 1983 book about Theocritus by the classicist David M. Halperin.

Reception

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Before Pastoral was praised by the literary scholars Camille Paglia,[1] and 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'."[2]

References

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  1. ^ Paglia 1993. p. 171.
  2. ^ Saunders 2006. p. 3.

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