One of this man's poems is a dialogue in which Simaetha tells her story to the moon after being abandoned by Delphis.
One of this man's poems is a dialogue in which Simaetha tells her story to the moon after being abandoned by Delphis. Another of his poems follows the daily lives of the women Gorgo and Praxinoa and ends with them admiring the palace of Ptolemy where they have come to celebrate a festival for Adonis. Those are two of his three "mimes." He wrote a poem in which Polyphemus cures himself of his unrequited love for Galatea by singing a mournful love song. Another of his poems is narrated by the poet in the guise of Simichidas, who is given a staff by fellow poet Lycidas. That poem, usually titled (*) "Harvest-Home" or "Harvest Feast," is set on his home island of Kos. This poet, who wrote about the death of Daphnis in a poem narrated by and sometimes titled for Thyrsis, set many of his poems in the country side of Sicily. For 10 points, name this poet whose bucolics were published as the Idylls, a third century BC Greek thought of as the inventor of pastoral poetry.
One of this man's poems is a dialogue in which Simaetha tells her story to the moon after being abandoned by Delphis.
{Theocritus}