«Io dico sempre il vero»: la coerenza estetica nella poesia bucolica teocritea

Abstract

The component of realism in bucolic poetry is the object of a large debate
among the studies on Theocritus. The use of term ἀλάθεια recurring in two passages
of the Idylls V e VII demonstrates how the concept of “truth” has a complex relation
not only with the knowledge of reality of the pastoral world, but also with an idea of
aesthetic coherence which is intimate part of the conception of bucolic poetry as an
erudite and refined literary experiment.