MILITARY PERSONNEL

Lamachus

500 BC - 414 BC

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Lamachus (Ancient Greek: Λάμαχος) was an Athenian strategos or general in the Peloponnesian War. He commanded as early as 435 BCE, and was prominent by the mid 420s. Aristophanes caricatured him in The Acharnians and subsequently honoured his memory in The Frogs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lamachus has received more than 36,786 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Lamachus is the 1,064th most popular military personnel (down from 949th in 2019), the 466th most popular biography from Greece (down from 445th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Greek Military Personnel.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Lamachus ranks 1,064 out of 2,058. Before him are Viktor Dankl von Krasnik, Al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra, Mehmed II Giray, Walton Walker, Maria Bochkareva, and Hermann Priess. After him are Walter Krüger, Alexey Maresyev, Harukichi Hyakutake, Tettius Julianus, Callicratidas, and Olivier V de Clisson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 500 BC, Lamachus ranks 57. Before him are Calamis, Callimachus, Agoracritus, Metrodorus of Chios, Hyperbolus, and Theagenes of Thasos. After him are Li Kui, Callicratidas, Timon of Athens, Apollodorus, Praxilla, and Gylippus. Among people deceased in 414 BC, Lamachus ranks 1. 

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    Lamachus

    MILITARY PERSONNEL

    500 BC - 414 BC

    HPI: 60.89

    Rank: 1

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Lamachus ranks 466 out of 1,024. Before him are Koçi Xoxe (1911), Dorieus (-600), Müezzinzade Ali Pasha (null), Hyperbolus (-500), Theagenes of Thasos (-500), and Philostratus of Lemnos (200). After him are Ioannis Kolettis (1773), Archidamus V (-250), Callicratidas (-500), Menedemus (-340), Augustinos Kapodistrias (1778), and Panagiotis Pikrammenos (1945).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Greece

Among military personnels born in Greece, Lamachus ranks 35. Before him are Cleombrotus (-600), Markos Botsaris (1790), Chabrias (-500), Dimitrios Ioannidis (1923), Clearchus of Sparta (-401), and Müezzinzade Ali Pasha (null). After him are Callicratidas (-500), Gylippus (-500), Leosthenes (-400), Xanthippus of Carthage (-300), Laomedon of Mytilene (-400), and Georgios Zoitakis (1910).

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