Before Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry is a 1983 book about Theocritus by the classicist David M. Halperin.

Before Pastoral was praised by the literary scholars Camille Paglia,[1] 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'.

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