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Mnesikles

500 BC - 460 BC

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Mnesikles (Ancient Greek: Μνησικλῆς; Latin transliteration: Mnesicles) was an ancient Athenian architect active in the mid 5th century BC, the age of Pericles. Plutarch (Pericles, 13) identifies him as architect of the Propylaea, the Periclean gateway to the Athenian Acropolis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mnesikles has received more than 35,782 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Mnesikles is the 93rd most popular architect (down from 83rd in 2019), the 223rd most popular biography from Greece and the 3rd most popular Greek Architect.

Mnesikles is most famous for his participation in the Battle of Marathon, where he was killed.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Mnesikles ranks 93 out of 518Before him are Gottfried Semper, Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, Sostratus of Cnidus, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, and Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. After him are Minoru Yamasaki, Arata Isozaki, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, and Ange-Jacques Gabriel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 500 BC, Mnesikles ranks 20Before him are Nicias, Sogdianus of Persia, Pleistarchus, Meton of Athens, Brasidas, and Zeuxis. After him are Polygnotus, Archelaus, Eubulides, Fan Li, Parysatis, and Alcamenes. Among people deceased in 460 BC, Mnesikles ranks 3Before him are Pāṇini, and Meton of Athens. After him are Ajatashatru, Parrhasius, Hippo, Paeonius, Pharnabazus II, Diagoras of Rhodes, Telesilla, Sophron, and Agatharchus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Mnesikles ranks 223 out of 1,024Before him are Ephialtes (-590), Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark (1903), Antiphon (-480), Pausanias of Sparta (null), Lafcadio Hearn (1850), and Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906). After him are Athenagoras of Athens (133), Plutarch of Athens (350), Idomeneus of Crete (null), Archidamus II (-450), Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896), and Lycurgus of Athens (-390).

Among ARCHITECTS In Greece

Among architects born in Greece, Mnesikles ranks 3Before him are Ictinus (-500), and Callicrates (-470). After him are Dinocrates (-400), Aristobulus of Cassandreia (-375), Callimachus (-500), and Anastasios Metaxas (1862).