person
Archilochus of Paros
Archilochus
also: Archilochus, Archilochian, Archilochean, Archilochio, Archilochia
Greek iambic and elegiac poet of Paros (7th c. BC), the archetype of savage personal invective. Cicero calls Bibulus's venomous edicts against Caesar and Pompey "Archilochean" (Att. 2.20.6, 2.21.4).
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 2.20 §6 by an Archilochean edict
Archilochus of Paros (7th c. BC) was the archetypal poet of savage iambic invective. Cicero calls Bibulus's stinging edicts against Caesar and Pompey "Archilochean" for their venomous, lacerating tone.
- Ad Atticum 2.21 §4 Bibulus's Archilochian edicts against him
Archilochus of Paros was the archetype of savage iambic invective. Bibulus's edicts mocking Pompey and Caesar are "Archilochian" in their lacerating venom; crowds gathered to read them where they were posted.
- Ad Atticum 16.11 §2 as the iambic of Archilochus did to Aristophanes
Archilochus was the archaic Greek poet whose savage iambic verse was proverbial; the Aristophanes meant is the Alexandrian scholar Aristophanes of Byzantium, who prized the longest poems most.
- Tusculan Disputations §1.3 Archilochus in the reign of Romulus
Cicero dates the early Greek poets relative to Roman foundation legend: Homer and Hesiod before Rome's founding (traditionally 753 BC), Archilochus of Paros (the iambic poet) in the eighth century during Romulus's reign. The chronology is loose but serves his argument that Greek poetry far predates Latin.