Archilochus (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Archilochus is remembered only for his poetry.
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Archilochus was well known in antiquity as an innovator, especially in metrics. His metrical forms include iambic trimeter, elegiac couplets, trochaic tetrameter, epodes (poems in which a longer metrical unit is followed by a shorter one), and asynartete (verses consisting of two units having different rhythms). While he is traditionally said to have been the inventor of iambic and epodic poetry, it is possible that earlier poems in these meters failed to survive. Archilochus’s...
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