WRITER

Archilochus

680 BC - 645 BC

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Archilochus (; 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 429,502 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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  • 430k

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  • 69.78

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  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Fragmentos poéticos
Carmina
Archilochos
Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman
Literary Criticism
Greek Iambic Poetry
Literary Criticism
Gerber provides a faithful and fully annotated translation of the fragments that have come down to us.

Page views of Archilochuses by language

Over the past year Archilochus has had the most page views in the with 49,185 views, followed by Italian (17,823), and Russian (15,065). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (92.76%), Breton (59.23%), and Basque (58.60%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Archilochus ranks 322 out of 7,302Before 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 1After him is Callinus. Among people deceased in 645 BC, Archilochus ranks 1After him are Guan Zhong, and Terpander.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Archilochus ranks 89 out of 1,024Before 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).

Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Archilochus ranks 11Before 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).