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Kassia

810 - 865

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Kassia, Cassia or Kassiani (Greek: Κασσιανή, romanized: Kassianí, pronounced [kasia'ni]; c. 810 – before 865) was a Byzantine-Greek composer, hymnographer and poet. She holds a unique place in Byzantine music as the only known woman whose music appears in the Byzantine liturgy. Approximately fifty of her hymns are extant, most of which are stichera, though at least 26 have uncertain attribution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kassia has received more than 293,009 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Kassia is the 1,182nd most popular writer (down from 1,016th in 2019), the 430th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 366th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Turkish Writer.

Kassia is most famous for being the first female poet to write in the vernacular.

Memorability Metrics

  • 290k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kassia ranks 1,182 out of 5,755. Before her are Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, Chinua Achebe, Arthur Hailey, Matteo Bandello, Tove Ditlevsen, and Antarah ibn Shaddad. After her are Edith Södergran, Thomas De Quincey, Gottfried Keller, Henri Murger, Herrad of Landsberg, and John Dickson Carr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 810, Kassia ranks 8. Before her are Abbas ibn Firnas, Pope Benedict III, John Scotus Eriugena, Halfdan the Black, Kenneth MacAlpin, and Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani. After her are Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Hastein, García Íñiguez of Pamplona, Eulogius of Córdoba, Eberhard of Friuli, and Malamir of Bulgaria. Among people deceased in 865, Kassia ranks 3. Before her are Ansgar and Æthelberht, King of Wessex. After her is Paschasius Radbertus.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Kassia ranks 430 out of 1,301. Before her are Nicomedes IV of Bithynia (-200), Arame of Urartu (-900), Aretaeus of Cappadocia (100), Aziz Sancar (1946), Yolanda of Flanders (1175), and Sezen Aksu (1954). After her are Leontios (660), Dardanus (null), Isabella, Queen of Armenia (1216), Boris II of Bulgaria (931), Asclepiades of Bithynia (-120), and Ahmet Davutoğlu (1959).

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Among WRITERS In Turkey

Among writers born in Turkey, Kassia ranks 29. Before her are Ahmad Khani (1650), Bar Hebraeus (1226), John Malalas (491), Mimnermus (-670), Alcman (-611), and Zenodotus (-330). After her are Aristophanes of Byzantium (-257), Aelius Aristides (117), Callinus (-680), Oribasius (325), Hieronymus of Cardia (-390), and Quintus Smyrnaeus (400).

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