Archilochus
Greece (Paros)
- Where in Bolaño
- Between Parentheses, the essay "Exiles"; The Savage Detectives III, García Madero's prosody quiz in the Sonora desert (Lima: "Great poet"; Belano recites him from memory)
- Why read them
- Iambic poet and mercenary (c. 680–c. 645 BC) who threw away his shield and wrote a poem about it — Bolaño's patron saint of the writer who survives by running, and the only classic Belano and Lima can quote while fleeing across the desert.