Fragmenta

Books

• 3. Cleodamus and Myrson

  Bion's pastoral fragments preserve the Hellenistic tradition of refined bucolic poetry, where shepherds philosophise and nature mirrors human emotion.

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• IV.

  Bion's pastoral fragments preserve the Hellenistic tradition of refined bucolic poetry, where shepherds philosophise and nature mirrors human emotion.

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• V.

  Bion's pastoral fragments preserve the Hellenistic tradition of refined bucolic poetry, where shepherds philosophise and nature mirrors human emotion.

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• VI.

  Bion's pastoral fragments preserve the Hellenistic tradition of refined bucolic poetry, where shepherds philosophise and nature mirrors human emotion.

  11 lines
• VII.

  Bion's pastoral fragments preserve the Hellenistic tradition of refined bucolic poetry, where shepherds philosophise and nature mirrors human emotion.

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• VIII.

  Bion's pastoral fragments preserve the Hellenistic tradition of refined bucolic poetry, where shepherds philosophise and nature mirrors human emotion.

  7 lines
• IX.

  Bion's pastoral fragments preserve the Hellenistic tradition of refined bucolic poetry, where shepherds philosophise and nature mirrors human emotion.

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• X.

  Bion's pastoral fragments preserve the Hellenistic tradition of refined bucolic poetry, where shepherds philosophise and nature mirrors human emotion.

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• 11. The Hyacinth

  Bion's pastoral fragments preserve the Hellenistic tradition of refined bucolic poetry, where shepherds philosophise and nature mirrors human emotion.

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• XII.

  Bion's pastoral fragments preserve the Hellenistic tradition of refined bucolic poetry, where shepherds philosophise and nature mirrors human emotion.

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• XIII.

  Bion's pastoral fragments preserve the Hellenistic tradition of refined bucolic poetry, where shepherds philosophise and nature mirrors human emotion.

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• XIV.

  Bion's pastoral fragments preserve the Hellenistic tradition of refined bucolic poetry, where shepherds philosophise and nature mirrors human emotion.

  3 lines
• XV.

  Bion's pastoral fragments preserve the Hellenistic tradition of refined bucolic poetry, where shepherds philosophise and nature mirrors human emotion.

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• XVI.

  Bion's pastoral fragments preserve the Hellenistic tradition of refined bucolic poetry, where shepherds philosophise and nature mirrors human emotion.

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• XVII.

  A fragment from the bucolic poet Bion, preserved by a later ancient author — part of the slim surviving corpus of this Hellenistic pastoral poet.

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• 18

  A fragment from Bion's lost works, offering a glimpse of the pastoral and erotic themes that made him one of the three great bucolic poets alongside Theocritus and Moschus.

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