![]() He composed elegies, hymns and poems in iambic and trochaic meters. He was killed during a battle between the Parians and the Naxians. He fought as a mercenary in Ionia, Thrace, Toroni in Macedonia and in Euboea. Archilochus inherited these attributes from his father and the knowledge of the folk language from his mother Enipo, who belonged to the lower class (slave). Telesicles was the leader of the colonization expedition in Thassos and was known for his boldness and his sharp mind. His father, Telesicles was a scion of an aristocratic family. The ancient lyric poet Archilochus (c.680 BC – c.630 BC) was born in Paros. In general, his works are characterized by strong expressiveness, such as the representations of Hermes that he co-created with Lyssipos. The lips are set, the eyes are hollow, the eyebrows are thick and the bones of the forehead are quite prominent. This expression is also stamped on the heads of Meleager and Achilles. The copies of his works, such as the Maenad, which is housed at the museum of Munich and the statue of Meleager, the mythical hero of the Aetolians, are characterized by expressions of violent passion. ![]() Skopas also worked in Samothrace and he is considered to be the creator of the statue of Nike (Victory), which is now housed in the Louvre Museum and is made of Parian marble. He also created the statue of Dionysus for the city of Knidos. He also decorated and constructed in cooperation with other artists the mausoleum of Halicarnassus. One of his most important works, in 395 BC, was the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea in Arcadia, one of the most beautiful temples of Peloponnese. Skopas is considered to be one of the most important artists of his kind in ancient Greece, along with Phidias, Praxiteles and Lyssipos. Skopas left Paros when he was young and travelled around many places of Greece and Asia Minor, where he left many works of art. One of the greatest architects and sculptors of the ancient times (4th century BC), Skopas the Parian, was born in Paros. Paros was full of sculpture workshops, temples and other marvelous buildings. During this period, there were great sculptors working on the island such as Skopas the Parian. In 338 BC, Paros had lost its old power and submitted in chronological order to the Macedonians, to the Ptolemaic dynasty, to Mithridates and to the Romans. However, their defeat at the sea fight of Salamina leads the Persians to retreat and Themistocles to Paros, where he makes the residents of the island join the Athenian Hegemony. At that time, lyric poetry flourished on the island, with the famous Parian lyric poet Archilochus.ĭuring the classical period, Paros allies with the Persians who are trying to subjugate Greece. ![]() The marble, the natural source of wealth of Paros and its general prosperity brought cultural acme, especially during the Archaic period (7th century BC). The Arcadians merged with the Ionians who appeared later and Paros became an important sea power through the trade of the Parian marble, which was well-known for its transparency. The Mycenaean remains that were found at Koukounaries and on the hill of Kastro in Parikia, the capital of Paros prove the existence of this civilization.ĭuring the geometric period, Arcadian colonists came to the island their leader, Paros, gave the island its current name. With the change of the political scenery, the Mycenaeans came to the fore therefore Paros became an important center of this civilization. They gradually turned Paros into an important commercial and military center. Then, colonists came from the Minoan Crete that was at its zenith at that time, in Greece. The settlement that is located on the hill of Kastro (Castle), in Parikia, which dates back to the proto-Cycladic period, is a characteristic example.
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