Bion

Bion
/buy"on/, n.
fl. c100 B.C., Greek pastoral poet.

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▪ Greek poet
flourished 100 BC, b. Smyrna, Lydia, Asia Minor [now İzmir, Turkey]

      minor Greek bucolic poet.

      The Lament for Bion, written by an Italian pupil of the poet, suggests that he lived in Sicily. The 17 surviving fragments of Bion's Bucolica, mostly concerned with love and only occasionally with bucolic themes, strike a playful, sometimes sententious note. Since the Renaissance, Bion has also been credited with the Lament for Adonis, in about 100 hexameters, whose overheated and highly coloured emotionalism may reflect the cult of Adonis, which was popular in the poet's homeland. A Greek text and English translation, Bion of Smyrna: The Fragments and the Adonis, by J.D. Reed, was published in 2007.

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