Editing Archilochus (section)

==Reception and editions==
[[File:P.Oxy. VI 854.jpg|thumb|A fragment of a poem by Archilochus, preserved on papyrus from Oxyrhynchus]]

Fragments of Archilochus's poetry were first edited by [[Theodor Bergk]] in ''Poetae Lyrici Graeci'' (tom. II, 1882)
There are about three hundred known fragments of Archilochus's poetry, besides some forty paraphrases or indirect quotations, collected   in the ''Budé'' edition (1958, revised 1968)
by François Lasserre and [[André Bonnard]].<ref>''Archiloque, Fragments, texte établi par François Lasserre, traduit et commenté par André Bonnard, Collection des Universités de France, publié sous le patronage de l'Association Guillaume Budé'' (Paris, 1958; 2nd ed. rev., 1968)</ref>
About half of these fragments are too short or too damaged to discern any context or intention (some of them consisting of single words).
One of the longest fragments (fragment 13) has ten nearly complete lines.<ref>Gregory Nagy, "Ancient Greek Elegy", ''The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy'', ed. Karen Weisman (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010) 13-45.</ref>
 
Thirty previously unknown lines by Archilochus, in the [[elegiac]] meter, describing events leading up to the [[Trojan War]], in which Achaeans battled [[Telephus]] king of [[Mysia]], have been identified among the [[Oxyrhynchus Papyri]] and published in  ''The Oxyrhynchus Papyri'', Volume LXIX (Graeco-Roman Memoirs 89, 2007).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/POxy/monster/demo/Page1.html |title=POxy Oxyrhynchus Online |website=www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk}}</ref>
A discovery of a fragment of writing by Archilochus contained a citation of a proverb that was important to the proper interpretation of a letter in the [[Akkadian (language)|Akkadian]] language from the emperor of the [[Old Assyrian Empire]], [[Shamshi-Adad I]], with the same proverb: "The bitch by her acting too hastily brought forth the blind."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Moran |first1=William L. |title=An Assyriological gloss on the new Archilochus fragment |journal=Harvard Studies in Classical Philology |year=1978 |volume=82 |pages=18 |doi=10.2307/311017 |jstor=311017}}</ref>

Archilochus's line πόλλ' οἶδ' ἀλώπηξ, ἀλλ' ἐχῖνος ἓν μέγα ("a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing")<ref name="Hedgehog">Fragment 103 in the Diehl edition, 201 in the West edition. [https://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/graeca/Chronologia/S_ante07/Archilochos/arc_epo1.html]</ref>{{efn|It is also found in a fragment of Homer's ''[[Margites]]''.<ref name="Nagy">Gregory Nagy: [https://continuum.fas.harvard.edu/homo-ludens-in-the-world-of-ancient-greek-verbal-art-2/ Homo ludens in the world of ancient Greek verbal art]. 23 December 2023.</ref>}} inspired Isaiah Berlin's essay ''[[The Hedgehog and the Fox]]''.