Editing Moschus (section)

=== Influence ===
The ''Europa'', along with [[Callimachus]]' ''[[Hecale (poem)|Hecale]]'' and such Latin examples as [[Catullus 64]], is a major example of the Hellenistic phenomenon of the [[epyllion]]. Although it is hard to tell because of the fragmentary nature of the evidence, Moschus' influence on Greek bucolic poetry is likely to have been significant; the influence of ''Runaway Love'' is felt in Bion and other later bucolic poets. In later European literature his work was imitated or translated by such authors as [[Torquato Tasso]] and [[Ben Jonson]].