One of the chapters written by M. Fantuzzi in M. Fantuzzi and R. Hunter, "Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic poetry" Analysis of the the construction of the genre of "literary mime, and of its sub-genre bucolic poetry. Main emphasis on the idea of "Invention of a tradition" on behalf of Theocritus, and the dynamics between pastoral ideal of hesychia and pains of love both in Theocritus and in the post-Theocritean bucolic poets