Biography, Fiction, and the Archilochean ainos

Abstract

That articles on Archilochus begin with a historical overview of the approaches to his ‘I’ and the issue of the historicity of the characters who occupy his poems is a tradition in its own right. Scholarly debate on Archilochus oscillates between total disbelief in and defensive support of the actuality of these figures and an autobiographical stance for the poet. The positions of the respective scholars have often been uncompromising and the language passionate, mirroring perhaps the generic requirements of iambos, or inspired perhaps by the ‘roguish Archilochus’ himself.

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