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Anacreon

570 BC - 485 BC

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Anacreon (; Greek: Ἀνακρέων ὁ Τήϊος; c. 575 – 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 281,668 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Anacreon is the 168th most popular writer (up from 234th in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from Turkey (up from 98th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Turkish Writer.

Anacreon is most famous for his love poems.

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  • 280k

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  • 73.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anacreon ranks 168 out of 5,755. Before him are Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Lucian, Naguib Mahfouz, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Khalil Gibran, and Ivan Turgenev. After him are Frank Herbert, Janusz Korczak, Stanisław Lem, Abu Nuwas, Karel Čapek, and J. D. Salinger.

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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 Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Anacreon ranks 77 out of 1,301. Before him are Herostratus (-301), Osman III (1699), Ibn Taymiyyah (1263), Mustafa III (1717), Murad V (1840), and Lucian (120). After him are Alexios I Komnenos (1048), Şehzade Cihangir (1531), Abdulmejid II (1868), Aristotle Onassis (1906), Constantine VII (905), and Theodosius II (401).

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Among WRITERS In Turkey

Among writers born in Turkey, Anacreon ranks 3. Before him are Hesiod (-800) and Lucian (120). After him are Constantine VII (905), Orhan Pamuk (1952), Anna Komnene (1083), Dionysius of Halicarnassus (-60), Ammianus Marcellinus (330), Yunus Emre (1240), Giorgos Seferis (1900), Novatian (220), and Theodore the Studite (759).

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