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Homer

800 BC - 750 BC

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Homer (; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros; born c. 8th century BC) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the most revered and influential authors in history.Homer's Iliad centers on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles during the last year of the Trojan War. The Odyssey chronicles the ten-year journey of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, back to his home after the fall of Troy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Homer has received more than 8,996,609 page views. His biography is available in 187 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 182 in 2019). Homer is the most popular writer, the 6th most popular biography from Greece (down from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Greek Writer.

Homer is most famous for his epic poem, The Odyssey.

Memorability Metrics

  • 9.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 89.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 187

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 17.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Iliad
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). Erodelphian Society, Translations into English, Odysseus (Greek mythology)
Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. - [Wikipedia][1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad
1505
Odyssey
great_books_of_the_western_world, Translations into Italian, Odysseus (Greek mythology)
The Odyssey (/ˈɒdəsi/; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of Western literature, the Iliad being the oldest. Scholars believe it was composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia. - [Wikipedia][1] When Robert Fagles' translation of the Iliad was published in 1990, critics and scholars alike hailed it as a masterpiece. Now one of the great translators of our time presents us with the Odyssey, Homer's best-loved poem, recounting Odysseus' wanderings after the Trojan War. With wit and wile, the "man of twists and turns" meets the challenges of gods and monsters, only to return after twenty years to a home besieged by his wife's suitors. In the myths and legends retold in this immortal poem, Fagles has captured the energy of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom. This is an Odyssey to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. - Container. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey
1488
The Homeric hymns
Poetry, Translations into English, Hymns, Greek (Classical)
1806

Page views of Homers by language

Over the past year Homer has had the most page views in the with 1,167,030 views, followed by Spanish (614,343), and Russian (219,054). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Tuvan (47,400.00%), Kurdish (Kurmanji) (2,054.10%), and (761.27%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Homer ranks 1 out of 7,302. After him are Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord Byron, Voltaire, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, and Victor Hugo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 800 BC, Homer ranks 1. After him are Isaiah, Hesiod, Amos, Lycurgus of Sparta, Hezekiah, Hoshea, Esarhaddon, Manasseh of Judah, Achaemenes, Titus Tatius, and Jotham of Judah. Among people deceased in 750 BC, Homer ranks 1. After him is Nicander of Sparta.

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    Homer

    WRITER

    800 BC - 750 BC

    HPI: 89.85

    Rank: 1

  • Photo of Isaiah

    Isaiah

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    800 BC - 700 BC

    HPI: 79.93

    Rank: 2

  • Photo of Hesiod

    Hesiod

    WRITER

    800 BC - 700 BC

    HPI: 78.38

    Rank: 3

  • Photo of Amos

    Amos

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    800 BC - 745 BC

    HPI: 73.04

    Rank: 4

  • Photo of Lycurgus of Sparta

    Lycurgus of Sparta

    POLITICIAN

    800 BC - 730 BC

    HPI: 71.84

    Rank: 5

  • Photo of Hezekiah

    Hezekiah

    POLITICIAN

    800 BC - 697 BC

    HPI: 70.75

    Rank: 6

  • Photo of Hoshea

    Hoshea

    POLITICIAN

    800 BC - 800 BC

    HPI: 68.78

    Rank: 7

  • Photo of Esarhaddon

    Esarhaddon

    POLITICIAN

    800 BC - 669 BC

    HPI: 68.33

    Rank: 8

  • Photo of Manasseh of Judah

    Manasseh of Judah

    POLITICIAN

    800 BC - 642 BC

    HPI: 67.63

    Rank: 9

  • Photo of Achaemenes

    Achaemenes

    POLITICIAN

    800 BC - 700 BC

    HPI: 67.53

    Rank: 10

  • Photo of Titus Tatius

    Titus Tatius

    POLITICIAN

    800 BC - 800 BC

    HPI: 67.44

    Rank: 11

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    Jotham of Judah

    POLITICIAN

    800 BC - 800 BC

    HPI: 65.51

    Rank: 12

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Homer ranks 6 out of 1,024. Before him are Aristotle (-384), Plato (-427), Socrates (-470), Alexander the Great (-356), and Pythagoras (-570). After him are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881), Hippocrates (-460), Sophocles (-497), Pericles (-494), Democritus (-460), and Epicurus (-341).

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    Aristotle

    PHILOSOPHER

    384 BC - 321 BC

    HPI: 94.42

    Rank: 1

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    Plato

    PHILOSOPHER

    427 BC - 347 BC

    HPI: 94.10

    Rank: 2

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    Socrates

    PHILOSOPHER

    470 BC - 399 BC

    HPI: 93.30

    Rank: 3

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    Alexander the Great

    MILITARY PERSONNEL

    356 BC - 323 BC

    HPI: 92.48

    Rank: 4

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    Pythagoras

    PHILOSOPHER

    570 BC - 495 BC

    HPI: 91.06

    Rank: 5

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    Homer

    WRITER

    800 BC - 750 BC

    HPI: 89.85

    Rank: 6

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    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

    POLITICIAN

    1881 - 1938

    HPI: 88.57

    Rank: 7

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    Hippocrates

    PHYSICIAN

    460 BC - 370 BC

    HPI: 87.19

    Rank: 8

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    Sophocles

    WRITER

    497 BC - 406 BC

    HPI: 86.01

    Rank: 9

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    Pericles

    POLITICIAN

    494 BC - 429 BC

    HPI: 84.01

    Rank: 10

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    Democritus

    PHILOSOPHER

    460 BC - 360 BC

    HPI: 84.00

    Rank: 11

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    Epicurus

    PHILOSOPHER

    341 BC - 269 BC

    HPI: 83.74

    Rank: 12

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Homer ranks 1. After him are Sophocles (-497), Euripides (-480), 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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