PHILOSOPHER

Metrocles

400 BC - 300 BC

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Metrocles (Ancient Greek: Μητροκλῆς; fl. c. 325 BC) was a Cynic philosopher from Maroneia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Metrocles has received more than 40,893 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Metrocles is the 740th most popular philosopher (up from 982nd in 2019), the 430th most popular biography from Greece (up from 621st in 2019) and the 50th most popular Greek Philosopher.

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  • 1.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Metrocles ranks 740 out of 1,267. Before him are Denis de Rougemont, Hui Shi, James Mark Baldwin, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Gilbert de la Porrée, and William Heard Kilpatrick. After him are Theodor Lessing, Philippa Foot, Mykhailo Drahomanov, P. F. Strawson, Li Zhi, and Hemachandra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 400 BC, Metrocles ranks 52. Before him are King Xian of Zhou, Erinna, Gan De, Polykleitos the Younger, Crantor, and Gnaeus Flavius. After him are Antimachus, Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, Publius Decius Mus, Ada of Caria, Philip of Opus, and Deidamia I of Epirus. Among people deceased in 300 BC, Metrocles ranks 20. Before him are Eurydice of Egypt, Gaius Duilius, Diodorus Cronus, Aristyllus, Appius Claudius Caudex, and Gnaeus Flavius. After him are Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, Asclepiades of Samos, Manius Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messalla, Hecataeus of Abdera, Olympias II of Epirus, and Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Metrocles ranks 430 out of 1,024. Before him are Antonis Samaras (1951), Costas Simitis (1936), Hermarchus (-325), Agis I (-957), Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem (1952), and Philotheus I of Constantinople (1300). After him are Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria (1954), Callimachus (-500), Konstantinos Tsatsos (1899), Asclepiades of Samos (-320), Alexandros Koryzis (1885), and Alexandros Zaimis (1855).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Greece

Among philosophers born in Greece, Metrocles ranks 50. Before him are Zoilus (-400), Aeschines of Sphettus (-430), Cebes (-500), Onesicritus (-360), Asclepigenia (400), and Hermarchus (-325). After him are Glaucon (-445), Metrodorus of Chios (-500), Menedemus (-340), Hecataeus of Abdera (-400), George of Trebizond (1395), and Musaeus of Athens (-500).

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