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Erinna

400 BC - 400 BC

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Erinna (; Ancient Greek: Ἤριννα) was an ancient Greek poet. She is best known for her long poem The Distaff, a 300-line hexameter lament for her childhood friend Baucis, who had died shortly after her marriage. A large fragment of this poem was discovered in 1928 at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erinna has received more than 146,332 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Erinna is the 1,902nd most popular writer (up from 2,064th in 2019), the 394th most popular biography from Greece (up from 414th in 2019) and the 48th most popular Greek Writer.

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  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Blade runner
1997
Quentin Tarantino
1996
Inspector Morse information source pack
1993
Horror
1998
Erinna to Baucis
Friendship, Greek Elegiac poetry, Poetry
1978

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Erinna ranks 1,902 out of 7,302. Before her are Nora Ephron, Begum Rokeya, Colin Wilson, Luis de León, José de Espronceda, and Voltairine de Cleyre. After her are Khushal Khattak, Joseph Addison, Christopher Robin Milne, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Viktor Barna, and Ruan Ji.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 400 BC, Erinna ranks 47. Before her are Diodorus Cronus, Cynane, Silanion, Aeacides of Epirus, Aristyllus, and King Xian of Zhou. After her are Gan De, Polykleitos the Younger, Crantor, Gnaeus Flavius, Metrocles, and Antimachus. Among people deceased in 400 BC, Erinna ranks 19. Before her are Crateuas of Macedon, Cephisodotus the Elder, Nausiphanes, Artakama, Perictione, and Cebes. After her are Pythias, Gan De, Antalcidas, Metrodorus of Chios, Philip of Opus, and Li Kui.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Erinna ranks 394 out of 1,024. Before her are Miltiades the Elder (-600), Theopompus of Sparta (-800), Isaeus (-420), Aristyllus (-400), Hierocles of Alexandria (410), and Ion of Chios (-490). After her are Christos Sartzetakis (1929), Manos Hatzidakis (1925), Chabrias (-500), Neferkara I (-2780), Yorgos Lanthimos (1973), and Teucer (null).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Erinna ranks 48. Before her are Albert Cohen (1895), Hellanicus of Lesbos (-490), Theophylact of Ohrid (1055), Isaeus (-420), Hierocles of Alexandria (410), and Ion of Chios (-490). After her are Theodorus Gaza (1398), Telesilla (-500), Vassilis Vassilikos (1933), Dexippus (210), Asclepiades of Samos (-320), and Phylarchus (-255).

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