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Coin from ancient Thasos showing Satyr and nymph, dated to late fifth 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.

Archilochus, or, Archilochos () (c. 680–c. 645 BC) was a Greek lyric poet from the island of Paros in the Archaic period. He celebrated for his versatile and innovative use of poetic meters and as the earliest known Greek author to compose almost entirely on the theme of his own emotions and experiences. Alexandrian scholars included him in their canonic list of iambic poets, along with Semonides and Hipponax, yet ancient commentators also numbered him with Tyrtaeus and Callinus as the possible inventor of the elegy. However modern critics often characterize him simply as a lyric poet. Although his work now only survives in fragments, he was revered by the ancient Greeks as one of their most brilliant authors, able to be mentioned in the same breath as Homer and Hesiod, yet he was also censured by them as the archetypal poet of blame—his invectives were even said to have driven his former fiancee and her father to suicide. He presented himself as a man of few illusions either in war or in love, such as in the following elegy, where discretion is seen to be the better part of valour:

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Introduction to Archilochos and translation of A's... Introduction to Archilochos and translation of A's longest fragment by Guy Davenport www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/archiloch_intro.shtml - Web

Web Resources on Archilochos Web Resources on Archilochos www.poemhunter.com/archilochos/poet-25255/ - Web

The Poetry of Archilochos The Poetry of Archilochos web.archive.org/.../archilochos1.html - Web

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Archilochos fragments in Greek Archilochos fragments in Greek www.fh-augsburg.de/.../arc_intr.html - Web

Archilochus Bilingual Anthology (in Greek and Engl... Archilochus Bilingual Anthology (in Greek and English, side by side) www.ellopos.net/.../archilochus.asp - Web

Zweisprachige Textauswahl zu den griechischen Lyri... Zweisprachige Textauswahl zu den griechischen Lyrikern mit zusätzlichen Hilfen www.gottwein.de/Grie/lyr/LyrArchil01.php - Web

SORGLL: Archilochos 67; read by Stephen Daitz SORGLL: Archilochos 67; read by Stephen Daitz www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/arkhilokhos67.htm - Web

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