: ) (c.
680 BC – c. 645 BC)While these have been the generally accepted dates since Felix Jacoby
, "The Date of Archilochus," Classical Quarterly 35 (1941) 97-109, some scholars disagree; Robin Lane Fox
, for instance, in Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer (London: Allen Lane, 2008, ISBN 978-0713999808), p. 388, dates him c.
πόλλ' οἶδ' ἀλώπηξ, ἐχῖνος δ'ἓν μέγα 
ὦ Ζεῦ͵ πάτερ Ζεῦ͵ σὸν μὲν οὐρανοῦ κράτος͵ σὺ δ΄ ἔργ΄ ἐπ΄ ἀνθρώπων ὁρᾶις λεωργὰ καὶ θεμιστά͵ σοὶ δὲ θηρίων ὕβρις τε καὶ δίκη μέλει.
These golden mattersOf Gyges of Lydia|Gyges and his treasuriesAre no concern of mine.Jealousy has no power over me,Nor do I envy a god his work,And I do not burn to rule.Such things have noFascination for my eyes.
Be bold! That's one wayOf getting through life.So I turn upon herAnd point out that,Faced with the wickednessOf things, she does not shiver.
I know how to love thoseWho love me, how to hate.
You whom the soldiers beat,You who are all but dead,How the gods love youAnd I, alone in the dark,I was promised the light.