Homer
800 BC - 750 BC
HPI 95.41194 languages
Homer is most famous for his epic poem, The Odyssey.
Trending Writers from Greece This Week
The top 10 Writers from Greece trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
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Lafcadio Hearn
1850 - 1904
Trending in Japanese (#138) Wikipedia (1,993 views, on Oct 11).
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Ugo Foscolo
1778 - 1827
Trending in Italian (#268) Wikipedia (720 views, on Oct 7).
Top 10 Greek Writers
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Greek Writers of all time. This list of famous Greek Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Greek Writers.
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Sophocles
497 BC - 406 BC
HPI 89.32148 languagesSophocles is most famous for writing the three Theban plays: "Oedipus Rex", "Oedipus at Colonus", and "Antigone".
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Aristophanes
448 BC - 386 BC
HPI 84.4797 languagesAristophanes is most famous for his comedies. He wrote many plays, but he is most famous for "The Knights," "The Clouds," and "The Frogs."
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Euripides
480 BC - 406 BC
HPI 84.1298 languagesEuripides is most famous for his tragedy, "Medea," which tells the story of a woman who kills her children in revenge against her husband for leaving her.
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Aeschylus
525 BC - 456 BC
HPI 83.66102 languagesAeschylus is most famous for his tragedies, which are often called the "Oresteia" trilogy. The three tragedies are Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides.
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Sappho
630 BC - 570 BC
HPI 83.03109 languagesSappho was an ancient Greek poet, renowned for her lyric poetry that expressed deep emotions, particularly love and desire, often directed toward women. Her work, though mostly surviving in fragments, has made her an enduring symbol of female creativity and LGBTQ+ identity throughout history.
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Pindar
517 BC - 437 BC
HPI 79.0368 languagesPindar is most famous for his odes, a type of lyric poetry.
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Menander
342 BC - 291 BC
HPI 78.3769 languagesMenander is most famous for his plays, which were the first comedies written in Ancient Greece.
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Nikos Kazantzakis
1883 - 1957
HPI 76.7059 languagesNikos Kazantzakis is most famous for his novel Zorba the Greek.
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Alcaeus of Mytilene
620 BC - 560 BC
HPI 76.6247 languagesAlcaeus of Mytilene is most famous for being a lyric poet in ancient Greece. He was born in Mytilene and was one of the Nine Lyric Poets.
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Overlapping Lives
Which Writers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Writers since 1700.
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