Bion, Greek bucolic poet, was born at Phlossa near Smyrna, and flourished about 100 BC. Bucolic, although often used as an adjective, is a noun originally describing a type of pastoral poetry that praises rural life over the city. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... Shows the Location of the Province İzmir Izmir from space, June 1996 Izmir (Turkish spelling İzmir, contraction of its former Greek name Smyrna, Greek: Σμύρνη), the second-largest port (after İstanbul) and the third most populous city (2,409,000 in 2000) of Turkey, is located on the Aegean Sea near... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC - 100s BC - 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC Years: 105 BC 104 BC 103 BC 102 BC 101 BC - 100 BC - 99 BC 98 BC 97 BC 96 BC 95...

The account formerly given of him, that he was the contemporary and imitator of Theocritus, the friend and tutor of Moschus, and lived about 280 BC, is now generally regarded as incorrect. W Stein (De Moschi et Bionis aetate, Tübingen, 1893) puts Bion, chiefly on metrical grounds, in the first half of the 1st century BC. Theocritus, the creator of bucolic poetry, flourished in the 3rd century BC. Little is known of him beyond what can be inferred from his writings. ... Moschus, Greek bucolic poet and friend of the Alexandrian grammarian Aristarchus, was born at Syracuse and flourished about 150 BC. He was the author of a short epic poem, Europa, and a pretty little epigram, Love, the Runaway, imitated by Torquato Tasso and Ben Jonson. ... Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC - 280s BC - 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 285 BC 284 BC 283 BC 282 BC 281 BC 280 BC 279 BC 278 BC 277... (2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century - other centuries) The 1st century BC starts on January 1, 100 BC and ends on December 31, 1 BC. An alternative name for this century is the last century BC. (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) // Events The Roman Republic...

Nothing is known of him except that he lived in Sicily. The story that he died of poison, administered to him by some jealous rivals, who afterwards suffered the penalty of their crime, is probably only an invention. Although his poems are included in the general class of bucolic poetry, the remains show little of the vigour and truthfulness to nature characteristic of Theocritus. They breathe an exaggerated sentimentality, and show traces of the overstrained reflection frequently observable in later developments of pastoral poetry. The longest and best of them is the Lament for Adonis. It refers to the first day of the festival of Adonis, on which the death of the favourite of Aphrodite was lamented, thus forming an introduction to the Adoniazusae of Theocritus, the subject of which is the second day, when the reunion of Adonis and Aphrodite was celebrated. Fragments of his other pieces are preserved in Stobaeus; the epithalamium of Achilles and Deidameia is not his. Sicily (Sicilia in Italian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,700 sq. ... A 19th-century reproduction of a Greek bronze of Adonis found at Pompeii A Syrian dying-and-reborn annual vegetation god imported into Greek mythology but always retaining aspects of his Semitic Near Eastern origins, Adonis was one of the most complex cult figures in classical times. ... Aphrodite (Αφροδίτη, risen from sea-foam) is the Greek goddess of love and beauty. ... Joannes Stobaeus, so called from his native place Stobi in Macedonia, was the compiler of a valuable series of extracts from Greek authors. ... Epithalamium (from Greek; epi- upon, and thalamium nuptial chamber) specifically refers to a form of poem that is written for the bride. ...

Bion and Moschus have been edited separately by G Hermann (1849) and C Ziegler (Tübingen, 1869), the Epitaphios Adonidos by HL Ahrens (1854) and E Hiller in Beitrage zur Textegeschichte der griechischen Bukoliker (1888). Bion's poems are generally included in the editions of Theocritus. There are English translations by J Banks (1853) in Bohn's Classical Library, and by Andrew Long (1889), with Theocritus and Moschus; there is an edition of the text by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff in the Oxford Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca (1905). On the date of Bion see Franz Bücheler in Rheinisches Museum, xxx. (1875), pp. 33-411 also G Knaack in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopädie, s.v.; and F Susemihl, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur in der Alexandrinerzeit, i. (1891), p. 233. Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann (November 28, 1772 - December 31, 1848), German classical scholar and philologist, was born at Leipzig. ... Franz Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens (June 6, 1809 - September 25, 1881), was a German philologist. ... Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (22 December 1848 - 25 September 1931) was a German classical philologist. ... Franz Bücheler (June 3, 1837 - 1908), German classical scholar, was born in Rheinberg, and educated at Bonn. ... Pauly-Wissowa is the name commonly used for the Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, 1894ff, a German encyclopedia of classical scholarship. ...

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• Works by Bion of Phlossa at Project Gutenberg

W.R. Bion, author of such works as "Experiences in Groups", is another person that should be mentioned. He should be noted for his contributions to furthering theory and practice for Group Therapy and Group Analysis. Project Gutenberg (PG) was launched by Michael Hart in 1971 in order to provide a library, on what would later become the Internet, of free electronic versions (sometimes called e-texts) of physically existing books. ...