• Source: Idyll III

Idyll III, also called Κώμος ('The Serenade'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poet appears to personate a young goatherd, who after five lines dedicatory to a friend whom he calls Tityrus, serenades his mistress Amaryllis outside her cave. The poem is a monologue, but, like Idyll II, preserves the dialogue-form by means of a dumb character.




Summary


A goatherd, leaving his goats to feed on the hill-side, in the charge of Tityrus, approaches the cavern of Amaryllis, with its veil of ferns and ivy, and attempts to win back the heart of the girl by song. He mingles promises with threats, and repeats in verse the names of the famous lovers of old days, Milanion and Endymion. Failing to move Amaryllis, the goatherd threatens to die where he has thrown himself down, beneath the trees.




Analysis


According to J. M. Edmonds, "The appeal to Amaryllis may be regarded as consisting of three parts each ending with the offer of a gift—apples, garland, a goat—and a fourth part containing a love-song of four stanzas. The reciter would doubtless make a slight pause to mark the rejection of each gift and the failure of the song before the renewal of the cry of despair."




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See also


Eclogue 2
Eclogue 8




References






Sources


Chesi, G. M. (2018). "Intertextuality and Poetic Voice in Theocritus' Idyll 3". Mnemosyne. 71 (3): 489–96. doi:10.1163/1568525X-12342227. JSTOR 26572931.
Attribution: This article incorporates text from these sources, which are in the public domain.

Edmonds, J. M., ed. (1919). The Greek Bucolic Poets (3rd ed.). William Heinemann. pp. 41–7.
Lang, Andrew, ed. (1880). Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus. London: Macmillan and Co. pp. 16–18.




Further reading


Cholmeley, R. J., ed. (1919). The Idylls of Theocritus (2nd ed.). London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd. pp. 211–20.
Higham, T. F.; Bowra, C. M., eds. (1938). The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 550, 742.
Segal, Charles (1969). "Adonis and Aphrodite: Theocritus, Idyll III, 48". L'Antiquité Classique. 38 (1): 82–8. doi:10.3406/antiq.1969.1537. JSTOR 41649274.




External links


Greek Wikisource has original text related to this article: Κώμος
Media related to Idyll III at Wikimedia Commons
"Theocritus, Idylls, κῶμος". Perseus Digital Library.

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