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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 320,124 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Kassia is the 1,266th most popular writer (down from 1,180th in 2019), the 378th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 428th 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

  • 320k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kassia ranks 1,266 out of 7,302. Before her are Jan Kochanowski, Sharafkhan Bidlisi, Ichiyō Higuchi, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Cosmas of Prague, and Lu Yu. After her are Stobaeus, Yeghishe Charents, Lobsang Rampa, Erskine Caldwell, Edmond François Valentin About, and Hayim Nahman Bialik.

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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, Kenneth MacAlpin, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani, and Halfdan the Black. After her are Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, García Íñiguez of Pamplona, Hastein, Eberhard of Friuli, Eulogius of Córdoba, and Girart de Roussillon. 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 Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Kassia ranks 378 out of 1,347. Before her are Zoe Karbonopsina (900), Devlet Hatun (1361), Publilius Syrus (-100), Symeon the New Theologian (949), Şehzade Ahmet (1466), and Bâkî (1526). After her are Yeghishe Charents (1897), Cüneyt Arkın (1937), Themistius (317), Missak Manouchian (1906), Autolycus of Pitane (-360), and John Tzetzes (1110).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Kassia ranks 29. Before her are Zenodotus (-330), Alcman (-611), Aristophanes of Byzantium (-257), Publilius Syrus (-100), Symeon the New Theologian (949), and Bâkî (1526). After her are Yeghishe Charents (1897), John Tzetzes (1110), Aelius Aristides (117), Artemidorus (200), Callinus (-680), and Symeon the Metaphrast (900).

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