PHILOSOPHER

Antisthenes

445 BC - 365 BC

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Antisthenes (; Ancient Greek: Ἀντισθένης, pronounced [an.tis.tʰén.ε:s]; c. 446 – c. 366 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and a pupil of Socrates. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antisthenes has received more than 732,548 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Antisthenes is the 113th most popular philosopher (up from 120th in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from Greece (up from 62nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Greek Philosopher.

Antisthenes was a philosopher in ancient Greece who lived in the 5th century BC. He is most famous for his teachings on virtue and the importance of self-control.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Antisthenes by language

Over the past year Antisthenes has had the most page views in the with 85,471 views, followed by Spanish (40,949), and Russian (20,446). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (88.16%), Hindi (64.91%), and Breton (50.91%)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Antisthenes ranks 113 out of 1,267Before him are Emil Cioran, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Tertullian, Gilles Deleuze, and Bodhidharma. After him are William of Ockham, Henri de Saint-Simon, Pyrrho, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Simone Weil, and Chanakya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 445 BC, Antisthenes ranks 1After him are Lysias, Tissaphernes, and Glaucon. Among people deceased in 365 BC, Antisthenes ranks 1After him are Marcus Furius Camillus, Euclid of Megara, Ptolemy of Aloros, and Datames.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Antisthenes ranks 55 out of 1,024Before him are Peisistratos (-600), Menander (-342), Pope Sixtus II (215), Pindar (-517), Queen Sofía of Spain (1938), and Vangelis (1943). After him are Miltiades (-540), Seleucus I Nicator (-358), Pyrrho (-365), Xanthippe (-500), Polykleitos (-450), and Irene of Athens (752).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Greece

Among philosophers born in Greece, Antisthenes ranks 11Before him are Democritus (-460), Epicurus (-341), Plutarch (46), Protagoras (-486), Gorgias (-483), and Theophrastus (-371). After him are Pyrrho (-365), Isocrates (-436), Clement of Alexandria (150), Hippias (-443), Diotima of Mantinea (-450), and Melissus of Samos (-470).