WRITER

Archilochus

680 BC - 645 BC

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Archilochus (; Ancient Greek: Ἀρχίλοχος Arkhílokhos; c. 680 – c. 645 BC) was a Greek lyric poet of the Archaic period from the island of Paros. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Archilochus has received more than 467,586 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Archilochus is the 322nd most popular writer (down from 286th in 2019), the 89th most popular biography from Greece (down from 83rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Greek Writer.

Archilochus was a Greek poet who wrote in the 7th century BC. He is most famous for his poems about war, love, and wine.

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  • 470k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 74.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Archilochus ranks 322 out of 7,302. Before him are Henri Charrière, Ludovico Ariosto, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Michael Ende, Czesław Miłosz, and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. After him are Friedrich Schlegel, J. M. Coetzee, France Prešeren, Peter Drucker, Ève Curie, and Pär Lagerkvist.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 680 BC, Archilochus ranks 1. After him is Callinus. Among people deceased in 645 BC, Archilochus ranks 1. After him are Guan Zhong, and Terpander.

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    Archilochus

    WRITER

    680 BC - 645 BC

    HPI: 74.19

    Rank: 1

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    Callinus

    WRITER

    680 BC - 700 BC

    HPI: 65.14

    Rank: 2

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Others Deceased in 645 BC

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    Archilochus

    WRITER

    680 BC - 645 BC

    HPI: 74.19

    Rank: 1

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    Guan Zhong

    PHILOSOPHER

    720 BC - 645 BC

    HPI: 68.64

    Rank: 2

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    Terpander

    MUSICIAN

    712 BC - 645 BC

    HPI: 65.00

    Rank: 3

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Archilochus ranks 89 out of 1,024. Before him are Mahfiruz Hatun (1590), Hippias (-443), Irene Papas (1929), Galla Placidia (388), Giorgio de Chirico (1888), and Creon (null). After him are Cimon (-510), Lysimachus (-361), Nâzım Hikmet (1902), Dionysius the Areopagite (100), Alexander of Greece (1893), and Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt (1789).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Archilochus ranks 11. Before him are Aeschylus (-525), Sappho (-630), Menander (-342), Pindar (-517), Nikos Kazantzakis (1883), and Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620). After him are Nâzım Hikmet (1902), Simonides of Ceos (-556), Arion (-700), Phaedrus (-20), Lysias (-445), and Tyrtaeus (-700).

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