Moschus

The Europa, along with Callimachus' Hecale and such Latin examples as Catullus 64, is a major example of the Hellenistic phenomenon of the epyllion. Although it is hard to tell because of the fragmentary nature of the evidence, Moschus' influence on Greek bucolic poetry is likely to have been significant; the influence of Runaway Love is felt in Bion and other later bucolic poets. In later European literature his work was imitated or translated by such authors as Torquato Tasso and Ben Jonson.

Apocrypha

Two other poems, attributed to him at one time or another but no longer thought to be his, are also commonly edited with his work. The best known is the Epitaph on Bion (i.e.

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Moschus". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
• For a recent overview of Moschus see A. Porro in Eikasmos 10 (1999) 125–25.
• There are English translations by J. Banks in
  Bohn's Classical Library (1853), and by Andrew Lang (1889), together with Bion of Smyrna and Theocritus
  .
• See also Franz Susemihl, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur in der Alexandrinerzeit. i. 231 (1891).

External links

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• Works by or about Moschus at Wikisource
• Works by Moschus at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Moschus at Internet Archive
• Poems by Moschus English translations
• Works of Moschus at Theoi Project translated by J.M. Edmonds, 1912
• Anacreon, Bion, and Moschus, etc. translated by Thomas Stanley (1651)
• Europa. Perseus Digital Library Greek
• Theocritus, Bion et Moschus graece et latine. Accedunt virorum doctorum animadversiones scholia, indices, L. F. Heindorfius (ed.), Londini, sumtibus Whittaker, Treacher, et Arnot, 1829, vol. 2 pp. 35-77.
• Poetae bucolici et didactici. Theocritus, Bion, Moschus, Nicander, Oppianus, Marcellus de piscibus, poeta de herbis, C. Fr. Ameis, F. S. Lehrs (ed.), Parisiis, editore Ambrosio Firmin Didot, 1862, pp. 77-86.