Erotic Pets and Metapoetic Dildos in Marcus Argentarius, Anyte, Meleager, and Catullus

American Journal of Philology 146 (1):105-147 (2025)
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This article argues that Marcus Argentarius' epigram on Myro's dead grasshopper and cicada ( Anth. Pal. 7.364) provides an obscene interpretation of Anyte's model ( Anth. Pal. 7.190) by transforming Myro's paignia ("playthings") into sex toys. Like Catullus (2, 3), he builds on Meleager's eroticization of Anyte's poem in Anth. Pal. 7.195, 196, 207, as well as Herodas Mimiambs 6 and 7, which combine the themes of metapoetic dildos, female poets, and the Demeter/Persephone myth. Finally, I show that an acrostic ( ALIA, 7.364.1–4, "fruitless, idle") ties together the poem's erotic and metapoetic themes.

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