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Alcmenes

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Alcmenes (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκμένης) or Alcamenes, Alkamenos, was the 9th king of Sparta of the Agiad dynasty, from c. 740 to c. 700 BC. According to Pausanias, he was a commander in the night-expedition against Ampheia, which began the First Messenian War, but died before its 4th year. In his reign Helos was taken, a place near the mouth of the Eurotas, the last independent hold of the old Achaean population, and the supposed origin of the term "helot". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alcmenes has received more than 44,186 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Alcmenes is the 12,130th most popular politician (down from 10,112th in 2019), the 611th most popular biography from Greece (down from 523rd in 2019) and the 260th most popular Greek Politician.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alcmenes ranks 12,130 out of 19,576. Before him are Edward Osóbka-Morawski, William II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Maria, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Jacques Soustelle, and Ioannis Georgiadis. After him are Nasrullah Khan, Anand Panyarachun, Gayatri Devi, Theobald VI, Count of Blois, Fatemeh Pahlavi, and Salvador Jorge Blanco.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Alcmenes ranks 611 out of 1,024. Before him are Agesipolis II (-400), Cahit Arf (1910), Dionysius of Corinth (150), Francesco Barozzi (1537), Eurypon (null), and Ioannis Georgiadis (1876). After him are Joseph Sifakis (1946), Lesches (-700), Thrasyllus (-450), Philoxenus of Cythera (-435), Dimitrios Golemis (1874), and Dora Bakoyannis (1954).

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Among POLITICIANS In Greece

Among politicians born in Greece, Alcmenes ranks 260. Before him are Anaxidamus (-650), Xenophon Zolotas (1904), Mohamed Sherif Pasha (1826), Agesipolis II (-400), Eurypon (null), and Ioannis Georgiadis (1876). After him are Thrasyllus (-450), Dora Bakoyannis (1954), Manuel Doukas (1187), Spyridon Trikoupis (1788), Ibrahim Edhem Pasha (1818), and Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark (1965).

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