Lament for Bion

Name: Lament for Bion
Author: Moschus

by Moschus

Elegiac poem mourning death of fellow poet Bion with mythological imagery

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Moschus

Greek bucolic poet who followed in the tradition of Theocritus. His Europa and the Bull is an important mythological poem, and his Lament for Bion is one of the finest elegies of antiquity.

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