Inscriptions in the Archilocheion identify Archilochus as a key figure in the Parian cult of Dionysus[16] There is no evidence to back isolated reports that his mother was a slave, named Enipo, that he left Paros to escape poverty, or that he became a mercenary soldier???the slave background is probably inferred from a misreading of his verses; archaeology indicates that life on Paros, which he as