Marcus Argentarius
Marcus Argentarius (fl. C. AD 60) was a Greek epigrammatist. Some thirty-seven epigrams are attributed to Marcus in the Greek Anthology, most of which are erotic, and some are plays on words.
Marcus Argentarius
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- Ancient Rome
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- poet · epigrammatist
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- Ancient Greek
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Marcus Argentarius (fl. C. AD 60) was a Greek epigrammatist. Some thirty-seven epigrams are attributed to Marcus in the Greek Anthology, most of which are erotic, and some are plays on words.
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Stylistic evidence suggests he wrote during the early days of the Roman Empire, certainly not later than the middle of the first century AD, and his received epithet (argentarius, "money changer") supports a commercial Roman connection, but nothing more is known of his age.
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- 1.Émilie Marlène van Opstall (éd.), Jean Géomètre : Poèmes en hexamètres et en distiques élégiaques, Leyde / Boston, Brill, 2008, , n. 74
- 2.Cf. http://bcs.fltr.ucl.ac.be/antho/1-100.htm
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- Anthologie grecque
- Première partie : Anthologie palatine, Les Belles Lettres, texte et trad. T. I : Livres I-IV, trad. P. Waltz, 1929, XC-209 p. ; t. II : Livre V, 1929, 265 p. ; t. III : Livre VI, 1931, 338 p. ; t. IV : Livre VII, Epigrammes 1-363, 1938, 362 p. ; t. V : Livre VII, Epigrammes 364-748, 1941, 357 p. ; t. VI : livre VIII, Epigrammes de Saint Grégoire le Théologien, 1945, 194 p. ; t. VII : Livre IX. Epigrammes 1-358, 1957, LXIII-289 p. ; t. VIII : Livre IX. Epigrammes 359-827, 1974, X-477 p. ; t. X : Livre XI, 1972, X-302 p. ; t. XI : Livre XII, 1994, LXV-232 p. ; t. XII : Livres XIII-XV, 1970, VII-318 p.
- Deuxième partie : Anthologie de Planude, Les Belles Lettres, trad. R. Aubreton. T. XIII : Anthologie de Planude, 1980, VII-480 p.
- La Couronne et la Lyre. éd. Gallimard. 1979. 978-2-07-032256-5.
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