{{short description|1983 book by David M. Halperin}} {{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = Before Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry | image = Before Pastoral.JPG | caption = Cover | author = David M. Halperin | country = United States | language = English | subject = Theocritus | publisher = Yale University Press | pub_date = 1983 | media_type = Print (Hardcover) | pages = 289 | isbn = 978-0300025828 }} '''''Before Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry''''' is a 1983 book about Theocritus by the classicist David M. Halperin.
==Reception== ''Before Pastoral'' was praised by the literary scholars Camille Paglia,<ref>Paglia 1993. p. 171.</ref> and Timothy Saunders, who writes that it "still offers the most finely argued case for upholding the distinction between the two categories of 'bucolic' and 'pastoral'."<ref>Saunders 2006. p. 3.</ref>
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===Bibliography=== ;Books {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |author=Paglia, Camille |title=Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays |publisher=Penguin Books |location=New York |year=1993 |isbn=0-14-017209-2}} * {{cite book |author=Saunders, Timothy |editor1=Skoie, Mathilde |editor2=Velázquez, Sonia Bjørnstad |title=Pastoral and the Humanities: Arcadia Re-inscribed |url=https://archive.org/details/bibliografiadel00pitrgoog |publisher=Bristol Phoenix Press |location= |year=2006 |isbn=978-1904675587 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}} {{refend}}
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