New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

WRITER

Callinus

680 BC - 700 BC

Photo of Callinus

Icon of person Callinus

Callinus (Ancient Greek: Καλλῖνος, Kallinos; fl. mid-7th c. BC) was an ancient Greek elegiac poet who lived in the city of Ephesus in Asia Minor in the mid-7th century BC. His poetry is representative of the genre of martial exhortation elegy in which Tyrtaeus also specialized and which both Archilochus and Mimnermus appear to have composed. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Callinus has received more than 29,704 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Callinus is the 1,357th most popular writer (up from 1,390th in 2019), the 480th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 471st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Turkish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 30k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Page views of Callinuses by language


Among WRITERS

Among writers, Callinus ranks 1,357 out of 5,755. Before him are Ubertino of Casale, Adam de la Halle, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Edward Albee, Norman Mailer, and Diana Gabaldon. After him are Oribasius, Maryse Condé, Sławomir Mrożek, Laonikos Chalkokondyles, Subramania Bharati, and James Clavell.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 680 BC, Callinus ranks 2. Before him is Archilochus.  Among people deceased in 700 BC, Callinus ranks 10. Before him are Tyrtaeus, Achaemenes, Jehoahaz of Judah, Cylon of Athens, Perdiccas I of Macedon, and Ariaramnes. After him are Shebitku, Theopompus of Sparta, Argaeus I of Macedon, Demaratus of Corinth, Yajnavalkya, and Tyrimmas of Macedon.

Others Born in 680 BC

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 700 BC

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Callinus ranks 480 out of 1,301. Before him are Mark of Ephesus (1392), Gülçiçek Hatun (1355), Bardas (816), Philip I Philadelphus (-125), Simeon Stylites the Younger (521), and Euthymius the Great (377). After him are Oribasius (325), Anna of Savoy (1306), Harpalus (-400), Halit Ergenç (1970), Basil Zaharoff (1849), and Markos Vafeiadis (1906).

Others born in Turkey

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among WRITERS In Turkey

Among writers born in Turkey, Callinus ranks 32. Before him are Mimnermus (-670), Alcman (-611), Zenodotus (-330), Kassia (810), Aristophanes of Byzantium (-257), and Aelius Aristides (117). After him are Oribasius (325), Hieronymus of Cardia (-390), Quintus Smyrnaeus (400), Kâtip Çelebi (1609), Mehmet Akif Ersoy (1873), and Yeghishe Charents (1897).

Turkish born Writers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL