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)
Bion of Smyrna
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Bion was an ancient Greek bucolic poet from Smyrna, probably active at the end of the second or beginning of the first century BC. He is named in the Suda as one of three canonical bucolic poets along
Bion's longest surviving poem is a lament for Adonis, whose death is depicted in this painting by Peter Paul Rubens.