id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-431 Iambus (genre) - Wikipedia .html text/html 4455 330 70 The Alexandrian poet Callimachus composed "iambic" poems against contemporary scholars, which were collected in an edition of about a thousand lines, of which fragments of thirteen poems survive.[5] He in turn influenced Roman poets such as Catullus, who composed satirical epigrams that popularized Hipponax's choliamb.[6] Horace's Epodes on the other hand were mainly imitations of Archilochus[7] and, as with the Greek poet, his invectives took the forms both of private revenge and denunciation of social offenders.[8][9] The nature of iambus changed from one epoch to another, as becomes obvious if we compare two poems that are otherwise very similar – Horace's Epode 10 (around 30 BC) and the "Strasbourg" papyrus, a fragment attributed either to Archilochus or Hipponax (seventh and sixth century respectively). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-431.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-431.txt