Greek poet, the creator of pastoral poetry. His poems were termed eidyllia (`idylls`), a diminutive of eidos, which may mean `little poems.`[5 related articles]
(c. 310-c. 250 BC) Greek poet. His Idylls became models for later pastoral poetry. Probably born in Syracuse, he spent much of his life in Alexandria under the Greek dynasty of the Ptolemies. ...