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grbs-9731	Fabiano, Gianfranco	Fluctuation in Theocritus’ Style	1971	21	.pdf	application/pdf	9666	282	48	In order to understand clearly the relationships between Hellenistic poetry and classical literary tradi­ tion, namely the subtle complexities of the allusive codes of most Alexandrian literature and the real degree with which a literary model can provoke a particular atmosphere in the language and style of a Hellenistic work, we must turn our attention to the basic con­ cepts of p.LP:TjCtC and {ijAoc as they have been defined by Pasquali and referred to their corresponding Latin terms imitatio and aemulatio.18 Outside classical literature a further step in this direction has been made by W. K. Wimsatt, who in a brilliant essay entitled Imitation as Freedom has pointed out that in eighteenth-century English literature deviation from models led to freedom, individual expres­ sion and witty amusement only in so far as the models were kept in mind as bases from which new poetic meanings were derived.19 Theocritus' poetry as a whole is suffused with literary stimuli of quite diverse origin. Idyll 3 is perhaps the best example: it is a comical paraclausithyron which, by comparing the personal plight of the goatherd in love with mythical love stories of the past, is demonstrably akin to Latin love elegy, where we also meet with variability in the level of style as Trankle's analysis of some elegies of Propertius' fourth book has shown.42 Among Theocritus' poems Idyll 3 is one of the most elabor­ ate in its structure.	cache/grbs-9731.pdf	txt/grbs-9731.txt