“Sweet is the whisper of the pine-tree by the springs, and sweet no less, goatherd, the music of your pipe.”

About Theocritus

Poet • Greek

Theocritus was an ancient Greek poet from Syracuse, Sicily, and the creator of ancient Greek bucolic poetry. He flourished in the 3rd century BC, writing during the Hellenistic period. His poems, known as the Idylls,...