Theocritus. Moschus. Bion

Theocritus (early third century BC) was the inventor of the bucolic genre, also known as pastoral. The present edition of his work, along with that of his successors Moschus (fl. mid-second century BC) and Bion (fl. around 100 BC), replaces the earlier Loeb Classical Library volume of Greek Bucolic Poets by J. M. Edmonds (1912).