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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 794,088 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Herostratus is the 10th most popular extremist (down from 8th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 71st 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

  • 790k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Herostratus ranks 10 out of 283. Before him are John Wilkes Booth, Osama bin Laden, Gavrilo Princip, Elizabeth Báthory, Charles Manson, and Ted Bundy. After him are Gilles de Rais, Man in the Iron Mask, Abdullah Öcalan, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, 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, Magas of Cyrene, and Euphranor. Among people deceased in 356 BC, Herostratus ranks 1. After him is Philistus.

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    Herostratus

    EXTREMIST

    301 BC - 356 BC

    HPI: 73.73

    Rank: 1

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    Philistus

    HISTORIAN

    430 BC - 356 BC

    HPI: 54.47

    Rank: 2

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Herostratus ranks 72 out of 1,347. Before him are Osman III (1699), Anaximenes of Miletus (-585), Şehzade Mehmed (1522), Mustafa III (1717), Lucian (120), and Hipparchus (-190). After him are Orhan Pamuk (1952), Aristotle Onassis (1906), Murad V (1840), Honorius (384), Alexios I Komnenos (1048), and Constantine VII (905).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Türkiye

Among extremists born in Türkiye, Herostratus ranks 1. After him are Abdullah Öcalan (1949), Mehmet Ali Ağca (1958), and Abdullah Çatlı (1956).

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