Theocritus of Syracuse, floruit in the 3rd century BCE, is credited with the invention of bucolic poetry. As is usual with Greek poets, we know almost nothing certain about his life. Scholars still dispute which of the poems currently attributed to him actually are his. See Smith's biography for a longer discussion.
- Theocritus 13: Hylas. To go along with it I transcribed the scholia on Idyll 13, which are by turns interesting and exasperating.