Idyll XV
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Idyll XV, also called "The Women at the Adonis-Festival" in English, is a mime by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. This idyll describes the visit paid by two Syracusan women residing in Alexa
Gold octadrachm of Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Arsinoë II (obverse)
Theocritus
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Theocritus was a Greek poet from Sicily, Magna Graecia, and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry.
Theocritus's Idyll 13, Hylas and the Nymphs. P. Oxy. 694, 2nd century AD
Barent de Bakker: Illustration of Theocritus Idyll 1 Θύρσις ἢ ᾠδή, lines 12–14 (1779)