12 IDYLLS FROM THE GREEK
Theocritus, Moschus and Bion
The pastoral poetry of Greece in the rare Cardew translation, illustrated with contemporary illustrations from the Medici Press, and in a reconstruction of the Medici typeface.
Cardew's selections are:
Theocritus' Idyll III (The Cruelty of Amaryllis)
Theocritus' Idyll VI (Damoetas and Daphnis)
Theocritus' Idyll VIII (The Victory of Daphnis)
Theocritus' Idyll IX (The Song-Lover)
Theocritus' Idyll XI (The Cyclops in Love)
Theocritus' Idyll XV (The Two Syracusan Woman)
Theocritus' Idyll XXI (The Two Old Fishermen)
Theocritus' Idyll XXVIII (The Distaff)
Bion's Idyll I (Lament for Adonis)
Bion's Idyll III (The Seasons)
Moschus's Idyll 1 (Love the Runaway)
Moschus' Idyll III (Europa and the Bull)​
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The identity of E.J. Cardew remains a mystery: nothing is known about them, and this is their only published work apart from the well-known verse rendition of Virgil's Eclogues (also published by the Flowerdew Press in this series).
