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Irenaeus Referendarius
(93 words)

[German version]

6th-cent. AD poet of epigrams, author of three erotic epigrams that originate in the Cycle of Agathias: Anth. Pal. 5,249 (love with the haughty Rhodope is represented as the merging of soul and body); 5,251 (about an unnamed woman whose pride is not even broken by the evanescence of her beauty) and 253 (appeal to the coy Chrysilla to submit to Cypris' wishes). This last poem was imitated by Niketas Eugenianos.

Bibliography

Al. and Av. Cameron, The ‘Cycle of Agathias, in: JHS 86, 1966, 8.

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Albiani, Maria Grazia (Bologna), “Irenaeus Referendarius”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e527210>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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