For the genus of hummingbirds, see Archilochus (bird).
Archilochus
Bust of a bearded man (Archilochus?). Roman copy (c. 2nd century BC) of Greek original (4th century BC)
Native name
Ἀρχίλοχος
Born
c. 680 BC Paros
Died
c. 645 BC Paros
Occupation
Poet
Coin from ancient Thasos showing Satyr and nymph, late 5th century BC. Archilochus was involved in the Parian colonization of Thasos about two centuries before the coin was minted. His poetry includes vivid accounts of life as a warrior, seafarer and lover.Ionic capital from the grave of Archilochus, with inscription: "Here lies Archilochus, son of Telesicles", Archaeological Museum of Paros
Archilochus (/ɑːrˈkɪləkəs/; Greek: ἈρχίλοχοςArkhílokhos; c. 680 – c. 645 BC)[a] was a Greek lyric poet of the Archaic period from the island of Paros. He is celebrated for his versatile and innovative use of poetic meters, and is the earliest known Greek author to compose almost entirely on the theme of his own emotions and experiences.[3][4]
^Jacoby, Felix (1941). "The date of Archilochus". Classical Quarterly. 35 (3–4): 97–109. doi:10.1017/S0009838800027531. S2CID 170382248.
^Fox, R.L. (2008). Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their myths in the epic age of Homer. London, UK: Allen Lane. p. 388. ISBN 978-0-7139-9980-8.
^Barron & Easterling 1985, p. 117.
^Campbell 1982, p. 136.
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Archilochus (/ɑːrˈkɪləkəs/; Greek: Ἀρχίλοχος Arkhílokhos; c. 680 – c. 645 BC) was a Greek lyric poet of the Archaic period from the island of Paros. He...
Fickle") was a girl addressed in the 7th-century BC Greek poetry of Archilochus. Archilochus claims to have been engaged to the girl (fl. c. 660 BC) before...
the second (shorter) line of a two-line stanza of the kind composed by Archilochus and Hipponax in which the first line consists of a dactylic hexameter...
title is a reference to a fragment attributed to the Ancient Greek poet Archilochus: πόλλ' οἶδ' ἀλώπηξ, ἀλλ' ἐχῖνος ἓν μέγα ("a fox knows many things, but...
resemblance to the tenth epode of Horace (an avowed imitator of Archilochus). Archilochus might also have been the source for an unusually beautiful line...
were seen as the Sun abandoning humanity. According to a fragment of Archilochus, it is Zeus who blocks Helios and makes him disappear from the sky; "Zeus...
Compton, Todd, 1990. "The Trial of the Satirist: Poetic Vitae (Aesop, Archilochus, Homer) as Background for Plato's Apology", The American Journal of Philology...
reflects the precedent in Archilochus, for example, fr. 188 (West). Two other similar metrical couplets imitated from Archilochus combining dactylic and...
University Press, 2010, ISBN 0-691-14658-6. J Pòrtulas, C Miralles, Archilochus and the Iambic Poetry (page 24). John H. Riker (1991). Human Excellence...
Press.[ISBN missing] Rosen, Ralph. 2007. "The Hellenistic Epigrams on Archilochus and Hipponax." In Brill’s Companion to Hellenistic Epigram: Down to Philip...
Archived from the original on December 14, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2017. "Archilochus alexandri". Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Archived from the original...
battle, notably his heroes Alcaeus and Archilochus. The comparison with the latter poet is uncanny: Archilochus lost his shield in a part of Thrace near...
monopolization in a marked population of ruby-throated hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris)". Ecology and Evolution. 4 (6): 776–793. Bibcode:2014EcoEv...
Muse-worship was associated with the hero-cults of poets: the tombs of Archilochus on Thasos and of Hesiod and Thamyris in Boeotia all played host to festivals...
orally; the first poet to certainly compose their work in writing was Archilochus, a lyric poet from the mid-seventh century BC. Tragedy developed around...
Alberic's discussion of the metre see p. 101. See the article Archilochus for the rest. Archilochus fr. 128, quoted by Stobaeus (3.20.28). Aristotle, Poet....
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