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Philaenis

250 BC - 300 BC

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Philaenis of Samos was supposedly the author of a famous ancient sex manual. According to a surviving fragment of a treatise which claims to have been written by her, she was from Samos, and her father was called Ocymenes. However, many modern scholars consider "Philaenis" a fictional character whose persona may have been adopted by a variety of erotic writers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philaenis has received more than 86,547 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Philaenis is the 4,603rd most popular writer, the 693rd most popular biography from Greece and the 79th most popular Greek Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 87k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Philaenis ranks 4,603 out of 5,755Before her are Irena Veisaitė, Wang Meng, Régine Deforges, George du Maurier, Ingrid Noll, and Süreyya Ağaoğlu. After her are Shōhei Ōoka, Eudora Welty, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Gjorgji Abadžiev, John Boyne, and Sophia Elisabet Brenner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 250 BC, Philaenis ranks 28Before her are Sames I, Arsames I, Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus, Sotion, Stratonice of Macedon, and Manius Otacilius Crassus. After her is Ptolemaeus of Commagene. Among people deceased in 300 BC, Philaenis ranks 50Before her are Metrocles, Gaius Sulpicius Paterculus, Apama II, Stratonice of Macedon, Manius Otacilius Crassus, and Laodice II. After her are Craterus and Lucius Valerius Flaccus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Philaenis ranks 693 out of 936Before her are Antonis Antoniadis (1946), Alketas Panagoulias (1934), Giorgos Karagounis (1977), Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark (1965), Ion Dragoumis (1878), and Filippos Karvelas (1877). After her are Oxyntes (null), Agathonas Iakovidis (1955), Theofanis Gekas (1980), Arianna Huffington (1950), Toma Caragiu (1925), and Evangelos Venizelos (1957).

Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Philaenis ranks 79Before her are Vitsentzos Kornaros (1553), Onomacritus (-530), Vassilis Alexakis (1943), Matilde Serao (1856), Pherecrates (-450), and Kostas Karyotakis (1896). After her are Ioannis Chrysafis (1873), Kiki Dimoula (1931), Stratis Myrivilis (1890), Alki Zei (1925), Maria Polydouri (1902), and Diomidis Kyriakos (1811).