Iambus, or iambic poetry, was a genre of ancient Greek poetry, not restricted to the iambic meter, whose origins scholars trace to the cults of Demeter and Dionysus. Marked by insulting and obscene language and sometimes called blame poetry, it was practiced by the Archaic poets Archilochus, Semonides and Hipponax, later imitated by the Alexandrian poet Callimachus and by Roman writers such as Catullus and Horace, whose Epodes mainly imitated Archilochus.
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Notable ExamplePoems of Archilochus, Semonides and Hipponax 1 Defining TraitBlame, drawing attention to dangerous or unsuitable behaviours 1 In the Other Atlases
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The Archaic Greek poets Archilochus, Semonides and Hipponax were among the most famous of its early exponents.
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The common element in all iambus is blame, drawing attention to dangerous or unsuitable behaviours.
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Iambus, or iambic poetry, was a genre of ancient Greek poetry that included but was not restricted to the iambic meter and whose origins modern scholars have traced to the cults of Demeter and Dionysus.
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