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Hippias

600 BC - 490 BC

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Hippias (Ancient Greek: Ἱππίας, romanized: Hippías; c. 570 BC – 490 BC) was the last tyrant of Athens, ruling from 527 to 510 BC. He was one of the Peisistratids, a group of three tyrants in Ancient Greece. Pisistratus first, and then his son, Hippias, followed after him by Hippias' illegitimate son, Hegesistratos. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hippias has received more than 138,534 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Hippias is the 1,514th most popular politician (up from 1,766th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Greece (up from 144th in 2019) and the 48th most popular Greek Politician.

Hippias is most famous for being the head of the Platonic Academy in Athens, Greece.

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  • 66.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hippias ranks 1,514 out of 15,577. Before him are Jingtai Emperor, Tsai Ing-wen, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Lin Biao, Hassanal Bolkiah, and Juba II. After him are Jiang Ziya, Ferdinand I of Aragon, Philip V of Macedon, John II of Castile, Mengistu Haile Mariam, and Minamoto no Yoritomo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 600 BC, Hippias ranks 21. Before him are Yaśodharā, Polycrates, Mardonius, Chilon of Sparta, Bias of Priene, and Lucius Junius Brutus. After him are Thespis, Theano, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, Cleomenes I, Mahapajapati Gotami, and Ibycus. Among people deceased in 490 BC, Hippias ranks 2. Before him is Pheidippides. After him are Datis, Yan Hui, and Titus Lucretius Tricipitinus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Hippias ranks 128 out of 936. Before him are Mardonius (-600), Gülnuş Sultan (1642), Phaedrus (-20), Diotima of Mantinea (-450), Chilon of Sparta (-600), and Ictinus (-500). After him are Philip V of Macedon (-238), Ioannis Metaxas (1871), Cratylus (-500), Djemal Pasha (1872), Tyrtaeus (-700), and Thespis (-600).

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Among POLITICIANS In Greece

Among politicians born in Greece, Hippias ranks 48. Before him are Karolos Papoulias (1929), John V Palaiologos (1332), Critias (-460), Alexander of Greece (1893), Perseus of Macedon (-212), and Gülnuş Sultan (1642). After him are Philip V of Macedon (-238), Ioannis Metaxas (1871), Ephialtes of Trachis (-550), Sophia Palaiologina (1455), Agesilaus II (-444), and Ioannis Kapodistrias (1776).

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