Theocritus

Scholars of migration, colonization, and cultural interaction in antiquity have increasingly turned towards a variety of concepts (such as hybridity, negotiations, and middle grounds) developed by postcolonial theorists to describe the dynamics of ancient civilizations beyond th…

My study focuses on poetic descriptions of love in a pastoral setting. Many of the works that I discuss have at one time or another been considered part of the bucolic genre. Categorizing poetry as bucolic or pastoral has been problematic for some time because scholars disagree …