isthmiazusae

Updated: October 22, 2026

This famous idyl should rather, perhaps, be called a mimus. It describes the visit paid by two Syracusan women residing in Alexandria, to the festival of the resurrection of Adonis. Theocritus is believed to have had a model for this idyl in the Isthmiazusae of Sophron, an older poet. In the Isthmiazusae two ladies described the spectacle of the Isthmian games. Gorgo. Is Praxinoe at home?

of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion - Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose