R. J. Cholmeley, M.A., The Idylls of Theocritus

[31] Glaucè of Chios, a contemporary of Theocritus, mentioned by Hedylus in App. Anthol. 34 "Theon the flute player “ ηὔλει δὲ Γλαύκης μεμεθυσμένα παίγνια Μουσέων,
     καὶ τὸν ἐν ἀκρήτοις Βάτταλον ἡδυπότην":

” obviously a writer of popular songs.

Of Pyrrhos nothing is known; ᾿Ερυθραῖος ἢ Λέσβιος μελῶν ποιητής, Schol. J. A. Hartung in his note here and Introd. p. xv, strangely makes τὰ Πύρρω = 'the deeds of King Pyrrhos.' Such a conjunction of τὰ Γλαύκας, 'the songs of Glaucè,' with τὰ Πύρρω, 'the deeds of Pyrrhos,' is wholly impossible. We can, however, get a date for the idyll from the history of the king of Epirus. Pyrrhos entered Italy, 279; Croton was utterly destroyed at the same time. The scene of this poem should therefore be imagined as before 279, and the time of writing probably the same.