Brill's Companion to Theocritus

Poulheria Kyriakou is Professor of Greek Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is the author of Homeric Hapax Legomena in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius (1995), A Commentary on Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris (2006), The Past in Aeschylus and Sophocles (2011), and Theocritus and His Native Muse. A Syracusan Among Many (2018). She has also co-edited Wisdom and Folly in Euripides (2016).Evina Sistakou is Professor of Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is the author of The Geography of Callimachus and Hellenistic Avant-Garde Poetry (2005, in Modern Greek), Reconstructing the Epic. Cross-Readings of the Trojan Myth in Hellenistic Poetry (2008), The Aesthetics of Darkness. A Study of Hellenistic Romanticism in Apollonius, Lycophron and Nicander (2012) and Tragic Failures. Alexandrian Responses to Tragedy and the Tragic (2016).Antonios Rengakos is Professor of Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Member of the Academy of Athens. His major works are Form und Wandel des Machtdenkens der Athener bei Thukydides (1984), Der Homertext und die hellenistischen Dichter (1993), Apollonios Rhodios und die antike Homererklärung (1994). He is the co-editor of A Companion to Apollonius Rhodius (2001) Brill’s Companion to Thucydides (2006), Brill's Companion to Hesiod (2009), Homer Handbuch (2011), Brill’s Companion to Ancient Scholarship (2015).Contributors are: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Annemarie Ambühl, Ewen Bowie, Brian W. Breed, Dee L. Clayman, Taylor S. Coughlan, Christophe Cusset, Frederick T. Griffiths, Thomas K. Hubbard, Richard Hunter, Alexandros Kampakoglou, Evangelos Karakasis, Jacqueline Klooster, David Konstan, Jan Kwapisz, Poulheria Kyriakou, Giulio Massimilla, Claudio Meliadò, Sarah Miles, Andrew D. Morrison, Lara Pagani, Viola Palmieri, Juan C. Pellicer, Ivana Petrovic, Tom Phillips, Évelyne Prioux, Joseph D. Reed, Alexander Sens, Evina Sistakou, Karl-Heinz Stanzel, William G. Thalmann, Olga Tribulato.

"This companion to Theocritus reflects important developments in the last few decades and offers a valuable basis for future research. (...) A strength of the volume is its willingness to engage with not only the Idylls but also the epigrams attributed to Theocritus. (...) Another strength of the volume is its attention to textual history and the Theocritean scholia.(...) Anyone who wishes to contribute to the future of Theocritean studies is advised to start by consulting this volume."Matthew Chaldekas in BMCR 24.05.39

• List of FiguresIntroduction: Modern Trends in the Study of TheocritusAlexandros KampakoglouPart 1 Author and Text1 A Poet’s LivesTom Phillips2 Theocritus’ Textual History and TraditionClaudio Meliadò3 Theocritus’ DialectsOlga Tribulato4 “Linking Together Rushes and Stalks of Asphodel”: The Forms of Theocritean PoetryJan KwapiszPart 2 Genres and Models5 Theocritus and Bucolic PoetryGiulio Massimilla6 Performing Mime in the Idylls of Theocritus: Metrical Mime, Drama, and the “Everyday” in Theocritus, Idylls 2, 14, 15Sarah Miles7 Theocritus’ Hymns and “Epyllia”: Poems 13, 22, 24, 26Alexander Sens8 Generic Experimentation in the Epigrams of “Theocritus”Taylor S. Coughlan9 Theocritus and the Bucolic HomerRichard Hunter10 Pan’s Pipes: Lyric Echoes and Contexts in TheocritusAlexandros Kampakoglou11 Θεόκριτος κωμῳδοποιός: Comic Patterns and Structures in Theocritus’ Bucolic Poems (with a Supplement on Tragic Patterns)Christophe CussetPart 3 Poetics and Aesthetics12 Ancient Scholarship on TheocritusLara Pagani13 The Sweet Pleasures of Theocritus’ Idylls: A Study in the Aesthetics of ἁδύτηςEvina Sistakou14 Theocritus’ Contest PoemsKarl-Heinz Stanzel15 The Programmatic Idylls of TheocritusJacqueline Klooster16 Theocritus and the Visual ArtsÉvelyne PriouxPart 4 Narrative and Themes17 Myth and Narrative in TheocritusAndrew D. Morrison18 Theocritean SpacesWilliam G. Thalmann19 Theocritus and the Rural WorldViola Palmieri20 Childhood and Youth in TheocritusAnnemarie Ambühl21 Eros and the PastoralDavid KonstanPart 5 Contexts and Topics22 Among the Cicadas: Theocritus and His ContemporariesBenjamin Acosta-Hughes23 Rulers and Patrons in TheocritusDee L. Clayman24 Theocritus’ Intercultural PoeticsFrederick T. Griffiths25 Gods and Religion in TheocritusIvana Petrovic26 Women in TheocritusPoulheria KyriakouPart 6 Imitation and Reception27 [Theocritus]: The Early Reception of TheocritusPoulheria Kyriakou28 Sicilian Muses: Theocritus and Virgil’s EcloguesBrian W. Breed29 The King’s Nectar: Theocritean Encomium and Augustan PoetryJoseph D. Reed30 Theocritus and Post-Virgilian Pastoral TraditionEvangelos Karakasis31 Theocritus and LongusEwen Bowie32 “Simple Theocritus” from the 16th to 18th CenturiesThomas K. Hubbard33 Theocritus in Nineteenth-Century British PoetryJuan C. PellicerIndex