ARCHILOCHUS

ärkĭlˈəkəs, fl. c.700 or c.650 b.c., Greek poet, b. Paros. As an innovator in the use and construction of the personal lyric, his language was intense and often violent. Many fragments of his verse survive.

See H. D. Rankin, Archilochus of Paros (1978).

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books on: Archilochus  - 650 results

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Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness: The Birth of a Genre from Archaic Greece to Augustan Rome
Book by Paul Allen Miller; Routledge, 1994
Subjects: Augustus--Emperor Of Rome--63 B.C.-14 A.D--Influence, Classical Poetry--History And Criticism, Latin Literature--Greek Influences, Literary Form--History--To 500, Lyric Poetry--History And Criticism, Rome--Civilization--Greek Influences
...would appear that both Odysseus and Archilochus are making use of a common fund of motifs...Denys Page has argued that much of Archilochus poetry contains oral formulae derived...Likewise, Socrates in the Ion pairs Archilochus with Homer (531 A), as does Antipater...
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Greek Poetry and Life: Essays Presented to Gilbert Murray on His Seventieth Birthday, January 2, 1936
Book by Gilbert Murray; The Clarendon Press, 1936
Subjects: Greek Drama--History And Criticism, Greek Philology, Greek Poetry--History And Criticism, Murray, Gilbert--1866-1957
...agrees better with the description of Archilochus than that which was total in Paros on...consistent with all the evidence for Archilochus date which we have so far considered...reconstruction of the chronology of Archilochus life. c . 740-730 B.C. Conjectural...
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Collected Papers on Latin Poetry
Book by R. O. A. M. Lyne; Oxford University Press, 2007
Subjects: Latin Poetry--History And Criticism
...genre of iambi, and his models are Archilochus and Hipponax; iambi is indeed...advertised in Epode 6. 13-14, while Archilochus is focused upon in Epist. 1. 19. 23-5. Of available models, Archilochus does indeed seem to have been the...
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Archetypes, Imprecators, and Victims of Fate: Origins and Developments of Satire in Black Drama
Book by Femi Euba; Greenwood Press, 1989
Subjects: African Americans In Literature, American Drama--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Archetypes In Literature, Blacks In Literature, Drama--Black Authors--History And Criticism, Esu (Legendary Character), Fate And Fatalism In Literature, Satire--History And Criticism, Yoruba (African People)--Folklore
...first poem to use the iambic meter, Archilochus was the first to use it in a particular...satirist. 10 According to the story, Archilochus, whose marriage vows were flouted by...of a powerful satirist emerges. 13 Archilochus is thus usually considered the archetype...
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Silence in the Land of Logos
Book by Silvia Montiglio; Princeton University Press, 2000
Subjects: Greece--Civilization, Greek Literature--History And Criticism, Literature And Anthropology--Greece, Literature And Society--Greece, Silence, Silence In Literature
...both verbally and vocally. At least Archilochus, so it seems, proudly advertised his...but now, I tell you these words of Archilochus: You have caught a cicada by its wing...may have heard of a poet of iambics, Archilochus, a Parian by birth: a man totally...
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The Voice of the Historian in the Ancient near Eastern and Mediterranean World
Journal article by Peter Machinist; Interpretation, Vol. 57, 2003
Subjects: Historians, History, Mediterranean Area, Middle East
...than Hecataeus come two epigrams of Archilochus of the island of Paros, a poet-mercenary...although they come from the history that Archilochus experienced. As a proper part of his...on these events. In his reflection, Archilochus not only puts forward his "I" but...
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The Myth of Rhetoric: Korax and the Art of Pollution
Journal article by Stephen Olbrys Gencarella; Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 37, 2007
Subjects: Historical analysis, Pollution, Religious orders, Violence
...Greek story about the death of the poet Archilochus and the second in a Roman narrative about a soldier. Archilochus of Paros was a seventh century BCE...Greek proverb, "You are treading on Archilochus" to reference the use of abusive speech...
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Persona and Power in Horace's First Book of Epistles
Journal article by Parshia Lee-Stecum; Antichthon, Vol. 43, 2009
Subjects: Poetry, Poets, Reading
...earlier reworking of such poetic models as Archilochus, Alcaeus and Sappho which he refers...following the metre and spirit of Archilochus, but not his subject matter nor the...Sappho orders her verse with the metre of Archilochus, and Alcaeus orders his likewise...
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Celebrating the Past: Horace's Odes as Aide Memoire
Journal article by S. Thom; Akroterion, 2008
Subjects: Greek poets--Criticism and interpretation, Greek poets--Works, Horace--Criticism and interpretation, Horace--Works, Mnemonics--Methods, Odes (Horace) (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation
...Greek poets like Sappho, Alcaeus, Archilochus, Alcman, Asclepiades. The metres...bene parmula) is a direct reference to Archilochus fleeing from battle, leaving his shield...precursors. The reference to his (and Archilochus) abandoned shield thus also contains...
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The Flux of Time in Ancient Greece
Journal article by Danielle S. Allen; Daedalus, Vol. 132, 2003
Subjects: Greek literature--Analysis, Relativity (Physics)--Analysis, Space and time--Models, Time dilatation, Time perception--History, Time perception--Observations
...record the real eclipse through which Archilochus lived, but the effect of strong emotions...the precise span of time allotted by Archilochus to its stoppage. If one takes this...times more ordinary flow. As in the Archilochus fragment, Greek poetry often took upon...
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Cy Twombly, Michael Ondaatje, and the Mystery of the Missing Translator
Magazine article by Rebecca Emlinger Roberts; The Antioch Review, Vol. 66, Spring 2008
Subjects: Archilochus--Criticism and interpretation, Ondaatje, Michael--Criticism and interpretation, Semantics--Criticism and interpretation, Translating and interpreting--Criticism and interpretation, Translation (Languages)--Criticism and interpretation, Twombly, Cy--Criticism and interpretation
...with the sights and the hint of a swoon as aftermath of my visit to the Cy Twombly Gallery, I might have read Anil apos;s Archilochus without realizing that an orphaned translation was drifting by, no raft in sight, no citation to anchor it to its maker...
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Hedgehog
Magazine article by Chris Reiter, Gina C. Gould; Natural History, Vol. 107, July 1998
Subjects: History, Literature, Mammals
...outran the hare, the Greek lyric poet Archilochus observed a simple truth in a hedgehogs...mercenary soldier as well as a poet, Archilochus must have been intrigued by the spiny...fox but extinction itself. Although Archilochus could not have been aware of what the...
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Rome's Gossip Columnist: When the First-Century Poet Martial Turned His Stylus on You, You Got the Point
Magazine article by Garry Wills; American Scholar, Vol. 77, Spring 2008
Subjects: Epigrams--Analysis, Martial--Criticism and interpretation, Martial--Works, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works
...Homer founded epic, epigram had a legendary forebear in the seventh-century Greek poet, Archilochus. As Horace put it in The Poets Craft: Archilochus made anger keep its head, And killed men metronomically dead. <br/ Of course, one could...
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A Prescription for Pharma
Magazine article by Richard Gallagher; The Scientist, Vol. 20, May 2006
...the wrong species: There are too many hedgehogs and not enough foxes. This hedgehog-and-fox metaphor dates back to Archilochus, an ancient Greek poet who wrote that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." Isaiah Berlin...
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American Graffiti
Magazine article by Arthur C. Danto; The Nation, Vol. 280, March 21, 2005
Subjects: Abstract painting--Exhibitions, Drawing--Exhibitions, Painting, Abstract--Exhibitions, Twombly, Cy--Exhibitions, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, New York)--Exhibitions
...could I locate it in any catalogue. But such titles, together with the classical allusions--Plato, for example, or Archilochus, not to mention Venus and Apollo and Pan--reveal a mind comfortable on both the levels that Nietzsche believed defined...
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Boris Johnson Ten of the Greatest Ancient Greeks
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 26, 2011
...havent been going swimmingly. 3 ARCHILOCHUS (c. 680 - c. 645 BC) Were moving on to the lyric poets now. And Archilochus is an absolute champion. He was...ground, and is full of heart. Archilochus is saying he doesnt like authority...
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Of Seethe, Snarl and Glinting Malice
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 18, 2009
Subjects: Denby, David, Humor, Wit and humor
...does. I wondered if the nature of his abuse, and everything in his life that produced it, didnt put him in the line of Archilochus and Hipponax as a writer of snark. Cant we claim Juvenal as snarks greatest talent, the peak from which every later version...
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The Democrats' White Male Problem
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 11, 2007
Subjects: Political parties--Political aspects
The Democrats White Male Problem. Byline: David C. Acheson, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Archilochus once said, "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." David Paul Kuhn, a seasoned and compelling...
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Sound Reasons to Study Hummingbirds
Newspaper article by Joe Szadkowski; The Washington Times, June 4, 2000
Sound reasons to study hummingbirds by Joe Szadkowski The ruby-throated archilochus colubris is one of 338 types of hummingbirds. These tiny creatures, which live in the Western Hemisphere , measure 3 1/2 inches...


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encyclopedia articles on: Archilochus  - 7 results

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Archilochus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ARCHILOCHUS arkil k s, fl. c.700 or c.650 b.c., Greek poet, b. Paros...violent. Many fragments of his verse survive. See H. D. Rankin, Archilochus of Paros (1978). ____________________ Copyright...
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Hummingbird
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...7.6 cm) of the U.S. species. The only species found in the NE United States is the ruby-throated hummingbird, Archilochus colubris. The male is metallic green above and whitish below, with an iridescent ruby-red throat; the female is dull...
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Horace
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Pisos, appeared c.13 b.c. Horace was an unrivaled lyric poet. His early poems show the influence of the Greek Archilochus, but his later verse displays complete and individualized adaption of Greek meters to Latin. As his genius matured, Horaces...
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Greek Music
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...phrases that were repeated. The earliest known musician was Terpander of Lesbos (7th cent. b.c.). The lyric art of Archilochus , Sappho , and Anacreon was also musical in nature. In the 6th cent. b.c., choral music was used in the drama, for...
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ThÁsos
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...were exploited by the Phoenicians. The island was colonized c.708 b.c. by persons from Paros, among whom was the poet Archilochus. In the 5th cent. b.c. it was subdued by Persia and then fell to Athens. A revolt against Athens was put down by Cimon...
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