448 BC - 386 BC
Aristophanes (; Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης, pronounced [aristopʰánɛːs]; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus and Zenodora, of the deme Kydathenaion (Latin: Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are used to define it, along with fragments from dozens of lost plays by Aristophanes and his contemporaries.Also known as "The Father of Comedy" and "the Prince of Ancient Comedy", Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aristophanes has received more than 2,287,810 page views. His biography is available in 91 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 90 in 2019). Aristophanes is the 44th most popular writer (up from 51st in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Greece (down from 16th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Greek Writer.
Aristophanes is most famous for his comedies. He wrote many plays, but he is most famous for "The Knights," "The Clouds," and "The Frogs."
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Among writers, Aristophanes ranks 44 out of 5,755. Before him are Marcel Proust, Hermann Hesse, Denis Diderot, Friedrich Schiller, Lord Byron, and Jane Austen. After him are Euripides, Mark Twain, Simone de Beauvoir, Sappho, Octave Mirbeau, and Arthur Conan Doyle.
1871 - 1922
HPI: 81.44
Rank: 38
1877 - 1962
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 39
1713 - 1784
HPI: 81.37
Rank: 40
1759 - 1805
HPI: 81.34
Rank: 41
1788 - 1824
HPI: 81.31
Rank: 42
1775 - 1817
HPI: 81.26
Rank: 43
448 BC - 386 BC
HPI: 81.19
Rank: 44
480 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 81.14
Rank: 45
1835 - 1910
HPI: 80.98
Rank: 46
1908 - 1986
HPI: 80.92
Rank: 47
630 BC - 570 BC
HPI: 80.67
Rank: 48
1848 - 1917
HPI: 80.43
Rank: 49
1859 - 1930
HPI: 80.26
Rank: 50
Among people born in 448 BC, Aristophanes ranks 1. After him are Agathon and Bardylis. Among people deceased in 386 BC, Aristophanes ranks 1.
448 BC - 386 BC
HPI: 81.19
Rank: 1
448 BC - 401 BC
HPI: 61.61
Rank: 2
448 BC - 358 BC
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 3
Among people born in Greece, Aristophanes ranks 17 out of 936. Before him are Epicurus (-341), Pericles (-494), Kösem Sultan (1590), Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921), Aeschylus (-525), and Spartacus (-109). After him are Euripides (-480), Protagoras (-486), Philip II of Macedon (-382), Sappho (-630), Plutarch (46), and El Greco (1541).
341 BC - 269 BC
HPI: 84.58
Rank: 11
494 BC - 429 BC
HPI: 84.49
Rank: 12
1590 - 1651
HPI: 82.27
Rank: 13
1921 - 2021
HPI: 82.19
Rank: 14
525 BC - 456 BC
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 15
109 BC - 71 BC
HPI: 81.35
Rank: 16
448 BC - 386 BC
HPI: 81.19
Rank: 17
480 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 81.14
Rank: 18
486 BC - 420 BC
HPI: 80.89
Rank: 19
382 BC - 336 BC
HPI: 80.74
Rank: 20
630 BC - 570 BC
HPI: 80.67
Rank: 21
46 - 127
HPI: 80.42
Rank: 22
1541 - 1614
HPI: 80.36
Rank: 23
Among writers born in Greece, Aristophanes ranks 4. Before him are Homer (-800), Sophocles (-497), and Aeschylus (-525). After him are Euripides (-480), Sappho (-630), Pindar (-517), Menander (-342), Nikos Kazantzakis (1883), Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620), Archilochus (-680), and Simonides of Ceos (-556).
800 BC - 750 BC
HPI: 91.42
Rank: 1
497 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 86.65
Rank: 2
525 BC - 456 BC
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 3
448 BC - 386 BC
HPI: 81.19
Rank: 4
480 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 81.14
Rank: 5
630 BC - 570 BC
HPI: 80.67
Rank: 6
517 BC - 437 BC
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 7
342 BC - 291 BC
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 8
1883 - 1957
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 9
620 BC - 560 BC
HPI: 70.71
Rank: 10
680 BC - 645 BC
HPI: 70.14
Rank: 11
556 BC - 468 BC
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 12