Corydon (character)

Corydon features in the fourth Idyll of the Syracusan poet Theocritus (c. 300 – c. 250 BC), where he is found herding some cows belonging to a certain Aegon.

The name appears in poem number 17 ("My flocks feed not, my ewes breed not") of The Passionate Pilgrim, an anthology of poetry first published in 1599 and attributed on the title page of the collection to Shakespeare.

[citation needed] Corydon and Thyrsis are a pair of shepherds in Edna St. Vincent Millay's 1920 play Aria da Capo.

[1] Corydon is the title of a 1924 book by André Gide in the form of Socratic dialogues arguing for the naturalness and morality of homosexuality.

Corydon Throsp owned a maisonette where Captain Pirate Prentice lives in the beginning of Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.