A Translation of the Idylls of Theocritus (Paperback)

Introduction; Idylls: 1. Thyrsis; 2. The sorceress; 3. The serenade; 4. The herdsmen; 5. Komatos and Lakon; 6. Daphnis and Damoetas; 7. The harvest-home; 8. Daphnis and Menalkas; 9. Daphnis and Menalkas; 10. The reapers; 11. The cyclops; 12. The beloved youth; 13. Hylas; 14. The love of Kyniska; 15. The Syracusan women at the Adonis festival; 16. The graces, or Hiero; 17. An encomium of Ptolemy; 18. An epithalamium for Helen; 19. The honey-stealer; 20. The young cowman; 21. The fishermen; 22. A hymn to the Dioskuri; [no chapter 23]; 24. The infant Heracles; 25. Herakles the lion-slayer; 27. The lovers' talk; 28. The distaff; 29 and 30. Two Aeolic love-poems; The epigrams.