Before Pastoral

Before Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry

Cover of the first edition
Author David M. Halperin
Country United States
Language English
Subject Theocritus
Published 1983 (Yale University Press)
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 classicist David M. Halperin.

Reception

Before Pastoral was praised by 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]

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Bibliography

Books
  • Paglia, Camille (1993). Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-017209-2. 
  • 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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