WRITER

Euripides

480 BC - 406 BC

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Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Euripides has received more than 3,030,127 page views. His biography is available in 94 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Euripides is the 44th most popular writer (up from 45th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Greece (up from 18th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Greek Writer.

Euripides is most famous for his tragedy, "Medea," which tells the story of a woman who kills her children in revenge against her husband for leaving her.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 83.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 94

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Euripides ranks 44 out of 7,302. Before him are H. P. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens, Hermann Hesse, Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola, and Stendhal. After him are Gustave Flaubert, Aristophanes, Jane Austen, Aeschylus, Simone de Beauvoir, and Octave Mirbeau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 480 BC, Euripides ranks 1. After him are Antiphon, and Kresilas. Among people deceased in 406 BC, Euripides ranks 2. Before him is Sophocles. After him are Hannibal Mago, Callicratidas, and Thrasyllus.

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    Euripides

    WRITER

    480 BC - 406 BC

    HPI: 83.74

    Rank: 1

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    Antiphon

    POLITICIAN

    480 BC - 411 BC

    HPI: 67.69

    Rank: 2

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    Kresilas

    SCULPTOR

    480 BC - 410 BC

    HPI: 62.00

    Rank: 3

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Euripides ranks 16 out of 1,024. Before him are Pericles (-494), Democritus (-460), Epicurus (-341), El Greco (1541), Kösem Sultan (1590), and Saint Stephen (1). After him are Aristophanes (-448), Plutarch (46), Aeschylus (-525), Sappho (-630), Philip II of Macedon (-382), and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Euripides ranks 3. Before him are Homer (-800), and Sophocles (-497). After him are Aristophanes (-448), Aeschylus (-525), Sappho (-630), Menander (-342), Pindar (-517), Nikos Kazantzakis (1883), Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620), Archilochus (-680), and Nâzım Hikmet (1902).

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