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grbs-17007	Kronenberg, Leah	Marcus Argentarius the Iambic Epigrammatist: Homer’s Irus Episode and Philostratus’ “Sweet Cure”	2024	14	.pdf	application/pdf	5183	193	61	Kronenberg ————— Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 64 (2024) 586–599 ISSN 2159-3159 Article copyright held by the author(s) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Marcus Argentarius the Iambic Epigrammatist: Homer’s Irus Episode and Philostratus’ “Sweet Cure” Leah Kronenberg ARCUS ΑRGENTARIUS, an epigrammatist collected in the Garland of Philip,1 has long been recognized for his puns and double-entendres, though recent decades have brought renewed appreciation for his frequently obscene wordplay and wit.2 Recent scholarship has also focused on 1 He may be identical with the rhetorician Argentarius who was a student of L. Cestius Pius (floruit ca. Unlike these three authors, it is possible that Argentarius was a Roman writing in Greek, though as Small, YCS 12 (1951) 74, states, “There is thus unfortunately no real evidence at our disposal to determine whether Marcus Argentarius was a Romanized Greek or a Hellenizing Roman.”	cache/grbs-17007.pdf	txt/grbs-17007.txt