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Herostratus

301 BC - 356 BC

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Herostratus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόστρατος) was a 4th-century BC Greek, accused of seeking notoriety as an arsonist by destroying the second Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (on the outskirts of present-day Selçuk), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The act prompted his execution and the creation of a damnatio memoriae law forbidding anyone to mention his name, orally or in writing. The law was ultimately ineffective, as evidenced by surviving accounts of his crime. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herostratus has received more than 733,996 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Herostratus is the 8th most popular extremist, the 71st most popular biography from Turkey (down from 63rd in 2019) and the most popular Turkish Extremist.

Herostratus was a Greek historian who is most famous for his work "The Persian Wars" which described the Greco-Persian Wars.

Memorability Metrics

  • 730k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 74.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Herostratus ranks 8 out of 209. Before him are John Wilkes Booth, Charles Manson, Elizabeth Báthory, Gavrilo Princip, Osama bin Laden, and Ted Bundy. After him are Lee Harvey Oswald, Man in the Iron Mask, Gilles de Rais, Ted Kaczynski, Andrei Chikatilo, and Ramón Mercader.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 301 BC, Herostratus ranks 1. After him are Cleopatra Eurydice of Macedon, Eurydice II of Macedon, Sisygambis, Brennus, Euphranor, and Magas of Cyrene. Among people deceased in 356 BC, Herostratus ranks 1. After him is Philistus.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Herostratus ranks 71 out of 1,301. Before him are Mahmud I (1696), Mithridates VI of Pontus (-132), Aspasia (-470), Anaximenes of Miletus (-585), Hipparchus (-190), and Rachel (-3500). After him are Osman III (1699), Ibn Taymiyyah (1263), Mustafa III (1717), Murad V (1840), Lucian (120), and Anacreon (-570).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Turkey

Among extremists born in Turkey, Herostratus ranks 1. After him are Abdullah Öcalan (1949) and Mehmet Ali Ağca (1958).

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