Hellenistic poetry

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

3 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

07/31/2009

Category :

Philosophy & literature

Sub category :

Literature

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Summary :

Introduction
Theocritus' abilities as a writer
Idyll 'The Cyclops'
1. The Cyclops's song
2. The first stanza: A state of desperation
3. The final stanza: A conversation the Cyclops is playing out in his mind
Theocritus' use of his poetry for more than just entertainment
The story of the Cyclops and the impossible love he feels for a goddess
Conclusion

Abstract

hellenistic poetry arose after the late Alexander period and heavily influenced other styles of writing to come. One contemporary writer of time was Theocritus. Theocritus was a Greek poet from Syracuse poetry in the early third century B.C. . He was considered by some to be a "remaker of the Greek tradition." Theocritus kept his writing tightly organized, and on a miniature scale in order to convey his ideas in an in implicit manner, as opposed to long neurotic rants. According to Halperin, "Theocritus's linguistic inventiveness extends beyond the mere combination of divers linguistic elements to the learned creating of unreal, cross-dialectal coinages that are designed to recall the hybrid morphology of individual words in Homer" . An example of Theocritus inventive writing can be seen in his work entitled The Idylls.