Английская Википедия:Idyll VIII
Idyll VIII, also called Βουκολιασταί βʹ ('The Second Country Singing-Match'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus.[1]
Summary
The characters of this dialogue are the mythical personages Daphnis a cowherd and Menalcas a shepherd, and an unnamed goatherd who plays umpire in their contest of song.[1] After four lines by way of stage-direction, the conversation opens with mutual banter between the two young countrymen, and leads to a singing-match with pipes for the stakes.[1] Each sings four alternate elegiac quatrains and an envoy of eight hexameters.[1] In the first three pairs of quatrains Menalcas sets the theme and Daphnis takes it up.[1] The first pair is addressed to the landscape; the remainder deal with love.[1]
Analysis
The scene is among the high mountain pastures of Sicily: Шаблон:Blockquote and far below lies the Sicilian sea.[2] Here Daphnis and Menalcas, two herdsmen of the golden age, meet, while still in their earliest youth, and contend for the prize of pastoral.[2] Their songs, in elegiac measure, are variations on the themes of love and friendship (for Menalcas sings of Milon, Daphnis of Nais), and of nature.[2] Daphnis is the winner; it is his earliest victory, and the prelude to his great renown among nymphs and shepherds.[2]
Transmission
The last pair of quatrains and the two envoys do not correspond in theme.[1] The resemblance of most of the competing stanzas has caused both loss and transposition in the manuscripts.[1] From metrical and linguistic considerations the poem is clearly not the work of Theocritus.[1] Some critics take the poem to be a patchwork by various hands.[2]
See also
References
Sources
Attribution: Шаблон:Source-attribution
Further reading
External links
Шаблон:Theocritus Шаблон:Authority control
