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Acusilaus

600 BC - 500 BC

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Acusilaus, Acusilas, Acousileos, or Akousilaos (Ancient Greek: Ἀκουσίλαος) of Argos, son of Cabas or Scabras, was a Greek logographer and mythographer who lived in the latter half of the 6th century BC but whose work survives only in fragments and summaries of individual points. He is one of the authors (= FGrHist 2) whose fragments were collected in Felix Jacoby's Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. Acusilaus was called the son of Cabras or Scabras, and it is not known whether he was of Peloponnesian or Boeotian Argos. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Acusilaus has received more than 46,499 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Acusilaus is the 2,921st most popular writer (down from 1,672nd in 2019), the 522nd most popular biography from Greece (down from 359th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular Greek Writer.

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  • 46k

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Fragmenta
2018

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Acusilaus ranks 2,921 out of 7,302. Before him are Armand Salacrou, Jean-François Revel, Tony Robbins, Jack Higgins, Tomaž Šalamun, and Albert of Aix. After him are Anatoly Rybakov, Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Glen Cook, David Gemmell, Juan Pablo Bonet, and Rose Ausländer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 600 BC, Acusilaus ranks 75. Before him are Aristeas, Douris, Archidamus I, Achaemenes, Eurycratides, and Kleitias. After him are Isagoras, Euthymides, Hydarnes, Agasicles, Artazostre, and Titus Lucretius Tricipitinus. Among people deceased in 500 BC, Acusilaus ranks 39. Before him are Agoracritus, Aristodemus of Cumae, Theagenes of Thasos, Praxilla, Douris, and Inaros II. After him are Euthymides, Hydarnes, Artazostre, Xanthus, Otanes, and Publius Postumius Tubertus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Acusilaus ranks 522 out of 1,024. Before him are Kostis Palamas (1859), Xanthippus of Carthage (-300), Antiphanes (-388), Aristidis Konstantinidis (1900), George Averoff (1815), and Anastasios of Albania (1929). After him are Agesilaus I (null), Axiothea of Phlius (-400), Cephisodotus the Younger (-400), Timarete (-420), Pamphilus (-390), and Agesipolis I (-410).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Acusilaus ranks 63. Before him are Philostratus of Lemnos (200), Antigonus of Carystus (-290), Praxilla (-500), Philitas of Cos (-400), Kostis Palamas (1859), and Antiphanes (-388). After him are Anyte of Tegea (-290), Theodor Kallifatides (1938), Alexandros Papadiamantis (1851), Rhianus (-275), Alberto Savinio (1891), and Solomon Alkabetz (1505).

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