Theocritus

(37) Later evolutions would explain the transition from earliest inconsequential imitations of nature (the Theocritean term, 'idyll', derives from the diminutive, eidyllion, from eidos, 'shape') to the 'eclogues', or selections of the most artful among these poems.

Here are two springs of cold water," says one Theocritean herdsman to another.

The sixth Eclogue opens with Tityrus's announcement that he has brought Theocritean bucolic to the Latin literary tradition:

(chapter 1), she devotes three chapters to the three main Alexandrian poets, Callimachus (chapter 2: Callimachean Theogonies), Theocritus (chapter 3: Theocritean Regencies), and Apollonius (chapter 4: Apollonian Cosmologies).

The line again is: "you, Tityrus, at your ease in the shade, are teaching the woods to echo lovely Amaryllis." By introducing a Theocritean name, Amaryllis, into this Lucretian framework, Virgil has in essence specified that his poetry will be indebted both to Lucretius and to Theocritus.

Initially attempting "to account for the persistence of the antipastoral in pastoral poetry," especially in Renaissance texts as exemplified in Marvell's poetry, Haber, who studied under Paul Alpers at Berkeley, discovered that anti-pastoralism has been a feature of the pastoral since its Theocritean origins.