| Before Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry | |
| Author: | David M. Halperin |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Theocritus |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Pub Date: | 1983 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages: | 289 |
| Isbn: | 978-0300025828 |
Before Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry is a 1983 book about Theocritus by the classicist David M. Halperin.
Before Pastoral was praised by the literary scholars Camille Paglia,[1] and Timothy Saunders, who writes that it "still offers the most finely argued case for upholding the distinction between the two categories of 'bucolic' and 'pastoral'."[2]