Before Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry

by David M. Halperin

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Before Pastoral was praised by the literary scholars Camille Paglia, 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'."

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David M. Halperin is W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Poetry
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884.01Literature & rhetoricClassical & modern Greek literaturesClassical Greek lyric poetry
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PA4444 .H33Language and LiteratureGreek language and literature. Latin language and literatureGreek literatureIndividual authors
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