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Erinna

400 BC - 400 BC

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Erinna (; 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 138,934 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Erinna is the 2,070th most popular writer (up from 2,501st in 2019), the 414th most popular biography from Greece (up from 477th in 2019) and the 50th most popular Greek Writer.

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  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Erinna ranks 2,070 out of 5,755. Before her are Marcellinus Comes, Kingsley Amis, Josef Lada, Stanisław Przybyszewski, Carlos Marighella, and Nigidius Figulus. After her are Anastasius Sinaita, Handrij Zejler, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Auguste Maquet, Patrick O'Brian, and Isaac Alfasi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 400 BC, Erinna ranks 48. Before her are King Xian of Zhou, Lais of Corinth, Polykleitos the Younger, Nausiphanes, Aeacides of Epirus, and Gan De. After her are Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, Leontion, Cleitarchus, Hecataeus of Abdera, Anniceris, and Bryaxis. Among people deceased in 400 BC, Erinna ranks 21. Before her are Artakama, Cebes, Cephisodotus the Elder, Antalcidas, Nausiphanes, and Gan De. After her are Euphranor, Li Kui, Echion, Pythias, Metrodorus of Chios, and Gaius Licinius Stolo.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Erinna ranks 414 out of 936. Before her are Polykleitos the Younger (-400), Phylarchus (-255), Phoebe (50), Callimachus (-500), Yanis Varoufakis (1961), and Joseph II of Constantinople (1360). After her are Hermarchus (-325), Xanthippus of Carthage (-300), Asclepigenia (400), Manuel Kantakouzenos (1326), Asclepiades of Samos (-320), and Antonis Samaras (1951).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Erinna ranks 50. Before her are Eupolis (-446), Ion of Chios (-490), Telesilla (-500), Albert Cohen (1895), Isaeus (-420), and Phylarchus (-255). After her are Asclepiades of Samos (-320), Victorinus of Pettau (250), Antigonus of Carystus (-290), Theodorus Gaza (1398), Dionysios Solomos (1798), and Posidippus (-310).

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