Dear Andy,
Would you tell me why you think the "reed" is a lute, not Pan's pipe? Does
not the 1588 translation of Theocritus's eighth eclogue speak of it as a
"Whistell which I made with note thrise three /Joinde with white waxe"?
thanks,
Shirley Sharon-Zisser
>I I would suggest that the
>shepherd's "reed" was a pastoral convention for what was, in reality, the
>proper instrument of Apollo. At the time of Theocritus that would be the
>lyre or kithara - in Spenser's age, the lute.
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