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Hierocles of Alexandria

410 - 500

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Hierocles of Alexandria (Greek: Ἱεροκλῆς ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς) was a Greek Neoplatonist writer who was active around AD 430. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hierocles of Alexandria has received more than 51,866 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hierocles of Alexandria is the 3,070th most popular writer (down from 2,744th in 2019), the 545th most popular biography from Greece (down from 504th in 2019) and the 66th most popular Greek Writer.

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  • 51.45

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hierocles of Alexandria ranks 3,070 out of 5,755Before him are Glen A. Larson, Torben Ulrich, Pierre Souvestre, Abdulah Sidran, Ioan Slavici, and Winston Graham. After him are Yulian Semyonov, Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Jorge Guillén, Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, and Fumiko Hayashi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 410, Hierocles of Alexandria ranks 6Before him are Pope Gelasius I, Priscus, Hayk, Movses Khorenatsi, and Severinus of Noricum.  Among people deceased in 500, Hierocles of Alexandria ranks 16Before him are Asclepigenia, Faustus of Byzantium, Aedesia, Respendial, Calcidius, and Nemesius. After him are Caradoc, Coelius Sedulius, and John I of Antioch.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Hierocles of Alexandria ranks 545 out of 936Before him are Nikolaos Michaloliakos (1957), Thrasyllus (-450), Antigone of Epirus (-350), Charilaos Vasilakos (1877), Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou (1950), and Achilles Painter (-470). After him are Theodor Kallifatides (1938), Chremonides (-400), Amasis Painter (-550), Cineas (-400), Ioannis Georgiadis (1876), and Charilaos Trikoupis (1832).

Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Hierocles of Alexandria ranks 66Before him are Anyte of Tegea (-290), Kostis Palamas (1859), Eumelus of Corinth (-800), Philostratus of Lemnos (200), Alexandros Papadiamantis (1851), and Antiphanes (-388). After him are Theodor Kallifatides (1938), Alberto Savinio (1891), Myrtis of Anthedon (-500), Angelos Sikelianos (1884), Philoxenus of Cythera (-435), and Lesches (-700).