Riffing off a fragment attributed to the ancient Greek poet Archilochus, Berlin devised the notion of categorizing thinkers as either hedgehogs or foxes.

Hermippus also appears to have written scurrilous iambic poems after the manner of Archilochus.

They are said to have hanged themselves like Lycambes and his daughters when assailed by Archilochus, the model and predecessor of Hipponax.