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]

Archilochus (flourished c. 650 bce, Paros [Cyclades, Greece]) was a poet and soldier, the earliest Greek writer of iambic, elegiac, and personal lyric poetry whose works have survived to any considerable …

Archilochus (Greek: Αρχιλοχος) (ca. 680 B.C.E. – ca. 645 B.C.E.) was an ancient Greek poet and mercenary. His works are, unfortunately, almost entirely lost; in the present day only fragments of …

Archilochus was noted in ancient times for outspoken vituperative iambic poetry. He lived in a time of colonization and vigorous intellectual movement, in which there was often a tendency to challenge …

May 6, 2020 · Archilochus was known in ancient Greece, to everyone who knew anything about literature, as the first poet after Homer and Hesiod.

Jun 2, 2024 · Photograph of a silver coin from Paros, dated to around 200 BCE. Pictured is Archilochus of Paros, seated on a diphros, holding a lyre in his left hand and a plectrum in his right hand. The …

Ancient Greece was home to some of the most amazing writers and storytellers in history, one of whom was the poet Archilochus. While most modern readers have never heard of Archilochus, Archilochus …

Dec 5, 2025 · Archilochus [Ἀρχίλοχος] (c. 680 BC – c. 645 BC), also rendered as Archilochos or Arkhilokhus, was a Greek lyric poet and mercenary from the island of Paros in the Archaic period.

Archilochus, an ancient Greek poet from the island of Paros, is primarily remembered for his innovative contributions to poetry, particularly in the realm of metrics.

Archilochus was famous throughout antiquity for the stinging wit with which he lashed his enemies and sometimes his friends, and for what appeared to be carefree admissions of such outrageous …