The Pastoral Narcissus

The Pastoral Narcissus

A Study of the First Idyll of Theocritus

by Clayton Zimmerman

111 pages· 1994· ISBN 9780847679621
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This treatment of the First Idyll demonstrates that Theocritus is evoking the Narcissus myth. The author uses his reading of Daphnis to inform other bucolic poems in the corpus, and to expose the connection between Daphnis and a Theocritean ideal of poetic composition.

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