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Author: MOSCHUS

Biography:

MOSCHUS (fl c. 150 BCE: EB)

The Greek poet Moschus was a native of Syracuse in Sicily. Very little is known about him and the attribution to him of the “Lament for Bion” (q.v.) is probably incorrect, since that must have been composed by a pupil of Bion, who flourished fifty years earlier. Moschus was a pastoral poet celebrated for short poems and the longer poem Europa, which is classified either as a short epic or as an idyll. Of the two translators whose work is represented in this bibliography, Richard Polwhele has a headnote of his own; for Francis Fawkes, see the headnote to Musaeus. (EB 17 Feb. 2025; Encyclopaedia Britannica [1911], 3: 956; Harvey) HJ

 

Books written (8):

New edn. Bath/ London/ Oxford/ Cambridge: Printed by Cruttwell in Bath; sold by Cadell; Dilly/ Fletcher/ Merrill, 1791
London: J. Sharpe, W. Suttaby, and Taylor and Hessey, 1810
New edn. London: Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1811
New edn. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, and John Murray, 1833