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archilochus

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Ar⋅chil⋅o⋅chus

  [ahr-kil-uh-kuhs]
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–noun
fl. c650 b.c., Greek poet.
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Archilochus

poet and soldier, the earliest Greek writer of iambic, elegiac, and personal lyric poetry whose works have survived to any considerable extent. The surviving fragments of his work show him to have been a metrical innovator of the highest ability.

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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
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