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Anacreon

570 BC - 485 BC

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Anacreon (; Ancient Greek: Ἀνακρέων ὁ Τήϊος; c. 573 – c. 495 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and erotic poems. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of Nine Lyric Poets. Anacreon wrote all of his poetry in the ancient Ionic dialect. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anacreon has received more than 310,945 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia. Anacreon is the 210th most popular writer (down from 168th in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 77th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Turkish Writer.

Anacreon is most famous for his love poems.

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  • 310k

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  • 76.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anacreon ranks 210 out of 7,302. Before him are Mansur Al-Hallaj, Tristan Tzara, Ray Bradbury, Stéphane Mallarmé, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Imre Kertész. After him are Johanna Spyri, Sigrid Undset, Maurice Leblanc, Carlo Goldoni, Diogenes Laërtius, and Terence.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 570 BC, Anacreon ranks 3. Before him are Pythagoras, and Xenophanes. After him are Theognis of Megara, and Hystaspes. Among people deceased in 485 BC, Anacreon ranks 1. After him are Theognis of Megara, and Spurius Cassius Viscellinus.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Anacreon ranks 87 out of 1,347. Before him are Abdulmejid II (1868), Piri Reis (1470), Abdülaziz (1830), Hecataeus of Miletus (-550), Mithridates VI of Pontus (-132), and Saint Pantaleon (275). After him are Pausanias (110), Manuel I Komnenos (1118), Şehzade Cihangir (1531), Romanos IV Diogenes (1030), Leo III the Isaurian (675), and Nestorius (381).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Anacreon ranks 5. Before him are Hesiod (-800), Lucian (120), Orhan Pamuk (1952), and Constantine VII (905). After him are Anna Komnene (1083), Dionysius of Halicarnassus (-60), Yunus Emre (1240), Ammianus Marcellinus (330), Giorgos Seferis (1900), Aratus (-315), and Theodore the Studite (759).

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