Category Archives: Greek Epigram

Frigidus Lusus

Posted on Monday: November 4, 2019 by Michael Hendry

After uploading my first published article two days ago, I thought I should add the second today, also on Marcus Argentarius. This one involves an obscene pun on the name of Antigone – not the Sophoclean protagonist but a probably-fictional … Continue reading →

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A Hermetic Pun in Marcus Argentarius

Posted on Saturday: November 2, 2019 by Michael Hendry

I have just uploaded my first published article, “A Hermetic Pun in Marcus Argentarius XII G-P (A.P. 5.127)”, Hermes 119.4 (1991): 497. Since it is about an obscene pun on the name of Hermes, I of course sent it to … Continue reading →

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Plain and Simple: Marcus Argentarius IV G-P (A.P. 5.89)

Posted on Sunday: March 13, 2016 by Michael Hendry

(Note: I hope someone will let me know if the Greek comes out wrong, and if so what browser and operating system were in use. On my screen, it looks fine except that acute accents not combined with breathings are … Continue reading →

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Gildersleeve and Palladas

Posted on Wednesday: November 17, 2010 by Michael Hendry

Laudator Temporis Acti quotes Basil L. Gildersleeve: Platonic scholars, with rare exceptions, are roughly to be divided into two classes, those who can understand the thought but not the Greek and those who can read the Greek but cannot understand … Continue reading →

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Equal and Opposite Indexing Errors

Posted on Monday: November 5, 2007 by Michael Hendry

Too bad they don’t cancel out. 1. The index of Albrecht Dihle’s Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire from Augustus to Justinian (Routledge, 1994) includes one entry for Lucilius and one for Lukillios. Too bad they are actually … Continue reading →

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Worthy of the Greek Anthology

Posted on Thursday: March 1, 2007 by Michael Hendry

. . . and probably influenced by it. This scoptic epitaph is entitled “De Erastenes, Medico” in the cheap paperback edition in which I found it (Rimas de Lope de Vega, ed. Gerardo Diego, Madrid, 1979), “De Erásthenes Medico” (with … Continue reading →

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