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Anaxarchus

380 BC - 320 BC

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Anaxarchus (; Greek: Ἀνάξαρχος; c. 380 – c. 320 BC) was a Greek philosopher of the school of Democritus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anaxarchus has received more than 74,506 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Anaxarchus is the 489th most popular philosopher (up from 565th in 2019), the 299th most popular biography from Greece (up from 342nd in 2019) and the 39th most popular Greek Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Anaxarchus ranks 489 out of 1,267. Before him are Agrippa the Skeptic, Yi Hwang, Norberto Bobbio, Hegesias of Cyrene, Themistius, and Ibn al-Rawandi. After him are Murray Bookchin, Sivananda Saraswati, Carl Stumpf, Karl-Otto Apel, Pierre Duhem, and Gorakhnath.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 380 BC, Anaxarchus ranks 4. Before him are Darius III, Pytheas, and Memnon of Rhodes. After him are Oxyartes, Anaximenes of Lampsacus, Demades, Mentor of Rhodes, and Lanike. Among people deceased in 320 BC, Anaxarchus ranks 2. Before him is Theopompus. After him are Zoilus, Anaximenes of Lampsacus, and Dinostratus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Anaxarchus ranks 299 out of 1,024. Before him are Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta (1904), Ange Postecoglou (1965), Piri Mehmed Pasha (1458), Cleisthenes of Sicyon (-701), Cratinus (-500), and Callimachus (-600). After him are Timoleon (-411), Anaxandridas II (-565), Ali Rıza Efendi (1839), Theramenes (-450), Lucas Papademos (1947), and Philo of Larissa (-145).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Greece

Among philosophers born in Greece, Anaxarchus ranks 39. Before him are Plutarch of Athens (350), Archelaus (-500), Timon of Phlius (-320), Phaedo of Elis (-401), Eudemus of Rhodes (-370), and Aristo of Chios (-300). After him are Philo of Larissa (-145), Polemon (-400), Crates of Athens (-400), Nicos Poulantzas (1936), Zoilus (-400), and Aeschines of Sphettus (-430).

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