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Menander

342 BC - 291 BC

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Menander (; Ancient Greek: Μένανδρος Menandros; c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Menander has received more than 610,785 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Menander is the 163rd most popular writer (down from 160th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Greece (up from 53rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Greek Writer.

Menander is most famous for his plays, which were the first comedies written in Ancient Greece.

Memorability Metrics

  • 610k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 69

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Menander ranks 163 out of 7,302. Before him are Karen Blixen, John the Evangelist, Terry Pratchett, Georges Simenon, Lucian, and Heinrich Böll. After him are Cyrano de Bergerac, Nicolas Flamel, Ivan Turgenev, H. G. Wells, Pindar, and Yasunari Kawabata.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 342 BC, Menander ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 291 BC, Menander ranks 1. After him are Emperor Kōan, and Dinarchus.

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    Menander

    WRITER

    342 BC - 291 BC

    HPI: 73.73

    Rank: 1

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Others Deceased in 291 BC

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    Menander

    WRITER

    342 BC - 291 BC

    HPI: 73.73

    Rank: 1

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    Emperor Kōan

    POLITICIAN

    427 BC - 291 BC

    HPI: 63.81

    Rank: 2

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    Dinarchus

    POLITICIAN

    361 BC - 291 BC

    HPI: 57.32

    Rank: 3

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Menander ranks 50 out of 1,024. Before him are Polybius (-208), Theophrastus (-371), Aristarchus of Samos (-311), Praxiteles (-395), Constantine II of Greece (1940), and Peisistratos (-600). After him are Pope Sixtus II (215), Pindar (-517), Queen Sofía of Spain (1938), Vangelis (1943), Antisthenes (-445), and Miltiades (-540).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Menander ranks 7. Before him are Homer (-800), Sophocles (-497), Euripides (-480), Aristophanes (-448), Aeschylus (-525), and Sappho (-630). After him are Pindar (-517), Nikos Kazantzakis (1883), Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620), Archilochus (-680), Nâzım Hikmet (1902), and Simonides of Ceos (-556).

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