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Archilochus
Archilochus Archilochus (or Archilochos) (ca. 680 BC - ca. 645 ... of the Delphic oracle. To this island Archilochus himself, hard pressed by poverty, afterwards removed ... had received from Lycambes, a citizen of Paros, who had promised him his daughter Neobule ... marriage, but had afterwards withdrawn his consent. Archilochus, taking advantage of the licence allowed ...
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Paros
Paros Statistics Prefecture: Cyclades Province: Paros (capital) Seat: Siphnos or Sifnos Location:Latitude ... inhabitants: Parian sing.s pl. Website: www.paros.gr Paros, or Paro (Greek: Πάρος), is an island ... under the common name of Paronaxia . Geography Paros' geographic co-ordinates are 37° N. ...
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Archilochus   (translated from Dutch)
Archilochus Archilochus were Grieks dense of spotdichten. Biographical data Archilochus (Greek: Archílochos) was born on the island Paros ( Cycladen ), in 7e centuries v. Chr. He ... a war between the adjoining island states Paros and Naxos . After its dead he ...
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Paros   (translated from Dutch)
Paros Páros are Grieks island in Egeïsche sea ... up to following words: Surround diamond, azure, Paros, eye of Greece, radiating ASTRE in the ... region then hillock-upward. The mountainous island Paros is considered by its central position as ... especially to adjoining Naxos ). For this reason Paros have been pre-eminently arranged organise reisje ... 1000 v. Chr.) the flowering time for Paros started, of 8th up to the ...
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Simonides of Amorgos
... harmony of versification. With Simonides, as with Archilochus of Paros, the iambic is still the vehicle of ... as we find it in Hesiod and Archilochus, and as it recurs a century later ...
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Thasos
... BC Thasos received a Greek colony from Paros. In a war which the Parian colonists ... the Saians, a Thracian tribe, the poet Archilochus threw away his shield. The Greeks extended ... two harbours, one of which was closed. Archilochus described Thasos as "an ass's backbone ...
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List of people by name: Arc-Arz
... Jeff (born 1952), New Zealand hockey player Archilochus of Paros (ca. 680 - ca. 645 BCE), Greek poet ...
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Homer/1911
... river, the Cayster. Even the Cyclades [--] Naxos, Paros, Melos [--] are unknown to the Homeric world ... in the earliest elegiac poets, such as Archilochus, Tyrtaeus and Theognis, reminiscences of Homeric language ...
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Ancient Greek literature
... first of the lyric poets was probably Archilochus of Paros, circa 700 BC. Only fragments remain of ...
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Gyges of Lydia
... which may be traced to the poet Archilochus of Paros, Candaules insisted upon showing Gyges his wife ...
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