Idyl or idyll may refer to:
Theocritus was a Greek poet from Sicily, Magna Graecia, and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry.
An idyll is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls (Εἰδύλλια).
The Eclogues, also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil.
In Greek mythology, the name Perimede refers to:
Idyll VI, otherwise known as Bucolic poem 6, was written by Theocritus in dactylic hexameter. The exact date of its composition is unknown. It references characters that have appeared in other works of literature such as Homer's Odyssey, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Theocritus' Idyll XI.
Idyll XI, otherwise known as Bucolic poem 11, was written by Theocritus in dactylic hexameter. Its main character, the Cyclops Polyphemus, has appeared in other works of literature such as Homer's Odyssey, and Theocritus' Idyll VI.
Idyll I, sometimes called Θύρσις ('Thyrsis'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus which takes the form of a dialogue between two rustics in a pastoral setting. Thyrsis meets a goatherd in a shady place beside a spring, and at his invitation sings the story of Daphnis. This ideal hero of Greek pastoral song had won for his bride the fairest of the Nymphs. Confident in the strength of his passion, he boasted that Love could never subdue him to a new affection. Love avenged himself by making Daphnis desire a strange maiden, but to this temptation he never yielded, and so died a constant lover. The song tells how the cattle and the wild things of the wood bewailed him, how Hermes and Priapus gave him counsel in vain, and how with his last breath he retorted the taunts of Aphrodite.
Idyll X, sometimes called Θερισταί or Εργατίναι, is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poem takes the form of a dialogue between the old foreman Milon, as he levels the swathes of corn, and his languid and love-worn companion, the reaper Bucaeus.
Idyll VII, also called θαλύσια, is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The dramatic persona, a poet, making his way through the noonday heat, with two friends, to a harvest feast, meets the goatherd, Lycidas. To humour the poet Lycidas sings a love song of his own, and the other replies with verses about the passion of Aratus, the famous writer of didactic verse. After a courteous parting from Lycidas, the poet and his two friends repair to the orchard, where Demeter is being gratified with the first-fruits of harvest and vintaging.
Idyll XIII, sometimes called Ύλας ('Hylas'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. As in Idyll XI, Nicias is again addressed, by way of introduction to the story of Hylas. This beautiful lad, a favourite companion of Heracles, took part in the Quest of the Fleece of Gold. As he went to draw water from a fountain, the water-nymphs dragged him down to their home, and Heracles, after a long and vain search, was compelled to follow the heroes of the Quest on foot to Phasis.
Idyll III, also called Κώμος, 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.
Idyll XXV, later titled Ηρακλής Λεοντοφόνος by Callierges, is a poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. This is an idyll of the epic sort, and is sometimes categorised as an epyllion. In the course of the narrative, Heracles visits the herds of King Augeas, and, after an encounter with a bull, describes to the king's son his battle with the lion of Nemea.
Idyll XVI, also called Χάριτες or Ἱέρων ('Hiero'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. In it the poet bewails the indifference of a money-loving age, and asks for the patronage of Hiero, then general-in-chief, afterwards king, of Syracuse.
Idyll V, sometimes called Αιπολικόν και Ποιμενικόν, is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. This Idyll begins with a ribald debate between two hirelings, who, at last, compete with each other in a match of pastoral song. The scene is in Southern Italy.
Idyll XXVI, also titled Λῆναι or Βάκχαι, is a bucolic poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. This Idyll narrates the murder of Pentheus, who was torn to pieces by his mother, Agave, and other Theban women, for having watched the celebration of the mysteries of Dionysus.
Idyll XVIII, also titled Ἑλένης Ἐπιθάλαμιος, is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poem includes a re-creation of the epithalamium sung by a choir of maidens at the marriage of Helen and Menelaus of Sparta. The idea is said to have been borrowed from an old poem by Stesichorus.
Idyll XX, also called Βουκολίσκος, is a bucolic poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd century BC Greek poet Theocritus. A neatherd, chafing because a city woman disdains him, protests that he is handsome, that Gods have been known to make love to country-folk, and that she deserves no lover at all. For grammatical and other reasons, some critics consider this Idyll apocryphal.
Idyll IV, also titled Νομεῖς, is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poem is a conversation between a goatherd named Battus and his fellow goatherd Corydon, who is acting oxherd in place of a certain Aegon who has been persuaded by one Milon son of Lampriadas to go and compete in a boxing-match at Olympia. Corydon's temporary rise in rank gives occasion for some friendly banter, varied with bitter references to Milon's having supplanted Battus in the favours of Amaryllis.
Idyll VIII, also called Βουκολιασταί βʹ, is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus.
Idyll XII, sometimes called Ἀίτης, is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus.
