Bion of Smyrna
See also: Bion
Bion , Greek poet bucolic, native of Smyrna, contemporary of Théocrite, flowered in Sicily towards 290 before J. - C., and died says one poisoned.
It remains us of him several Idylle S of an exquisite taste, in dialect Dorien, among which:
- fugitive Love ;
- funeral chant of Adonis .
He had as a disciple Moschus. Its poetries are usually joined together with those of Théocrite and Moschus. They were translated into French by Jean-Baptiste Gail, 1795.
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