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3 unusual facts about Bion of Smyrna


Bion of Smyrna

Franz Susemihl, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur in der Alexandrinerzeit, i.

There is no particular reason to think that the Epithalamium of Achilles and Deidameia, preserved in bucolic manuscripts and usually included under his name in modern editions, is Bion's work.

José Antonio Conde

In 1796–1797, he published paraphrases from Theocritus, Bion, Moschus, Sappho and Meleager.


Moschus

His surviving bucolic material (composed in the traditional dactylic hexameters and Doric dialect) is short on pastoral themes and is largely erotic and mythological; although this impression may be distorted by the paucity of evidence, it is also seen in the surviving bucolic of the generations after Moschus, including the work of Bion of Smyrna.


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