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Apollodorus

500 BC - 460 BC

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Apollodorus Skiagraphos (Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ σκιαγράφος) was an influential Ancient Greek painter of the 5th century BC whose work has since been entirely lost. Apollodorus left a technique behind known as skiagraphia, a way to easily produce shadow, that affected the works not only of his contemporaries but also of later generations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Apollodorus has received more than 132,279 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Apollodorus is the 969th most popular painter (down from 722nd in 2019), the 475th most popular biography from Greece (down from 390th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Greek Painter.

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  • 130k

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  • 54.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Apollodorus ranks 969 out of 2,023. Before him are Giovanni Giacometti, Paul Émile Chabas, Torii Kiyonaga, Carlo Saraceni, Olga Boznańska, and Boris Vallejo. After him are Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Ambrosius Holbein, Will Sampson, James Turrell, Gaspar Becerra, and Aleksander Orłowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 500 BC, Apollodorus ranks 61. Before him are Hyperbolus, Theagenes of Thasos, Lamachus, Li Kui, Callicratidas, and Timon of Athens. After him are Praxilla, Gylippus, Stateira, Musaeus of Athens, Inaros II, and Thrasybulus of Syracuse. Among people deceased in 460 BC, Apollodorus ranks 15. Before him are Diagoras of Rhodes, Telesilla, Sophron, Agatharchus, Calamis, and Callimachus. After him are Gylippus, Achaemenes, Thrasybulus of Syracuse, Ariobarzanes of Phrygia, and Pharnaces II of Phrygia.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Apollodorus ranks 475 out of 1,024. Before him are Callicratidas (-500), Menedemus (-340), Augustinos Kapodistrias (1778), Panagiotis Pikrammenos (1945), Mentor of Rhodes (-380), and Antigonus of Carystus (-290). After him are Praxilla (-500), Demaratus of Corinth (-700), Georgios Kondylis (1878), Ieronymos II of Athens (1938), Hecataeus of Abdera (-400), and Demophon of Athens (null).

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Among PAINTERS In Greece

Among painters born in Greece, Apollodorus ranks 7. Before him are El Greco (1541), Giorgio de Chirico (1888), Nikolaos Gyzis (1842), Jannis Kounellis (1936), Agatharchus (-500), and Achilles Painter (-470). After him are Douris (-600), Timarete (-420), Pamphilus (-390), Euphranor (-301), Nikiforos Lytras (1832), and Yannis Tsarouchis (1910).

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