Archilochos Heros The Cult of Poets in the Greek Polis

Summary: Diskin Clay describes the discovery of the Mnesiepes inscription on Paros, which revealed the third century B.C. belief that the young Archilochos was transformed into a poet by an encounter with the Muses. It also revealed that the poet had become the object of a cult by his fellow islanders as he was transformed in death into a local hero.