What is it about?

analysis of the place and the signification of death in Theocritus'Bucolic Idylls: existential, poetical and philosophical implications.

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Why is it important?

The metapoetical implications of death (poetics of death)

Perspectives

It may be a way to thinking the link between memory and preservation of a text (oral or written). On this, see my analysis La houlette de Mnémosyne. Ecouter et transmettre le chant dans les Idylles de Théocrite, in C. CUSSET, Christine KOSSAIFI, R. POIGNAULT (edd.), Présence de Théocrite, Clermont-Ferrand-Lyon, à paraître.

Dr Christine KOSSAIFI
Universite Clermont Auvergne

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This page is a summary of: Et in Theocrito ego . . ., Mnemosyne, January 2017, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-12341987.
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