250 BC - 300 BC
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.
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Among writers, Philaenis ranks 4,603 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1928 - 2020
HPI: 46.63
Rank: 4,597
1934 - Present
HPI: 46.62
Rank: 4,598
1935 - 2014
HPI: 46.62
Rank: 4,599
1834 - 1896
HPI: 46.62
Rank: 4,600
1935 - Present
HPI: 46.61
Rank: 4,601
1903 - 1989
HPI: 46.61
Rank: 4,602
250 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 46.60
Rank: 4,603
1909 - 1988
HPI: 46.60
Rank: 4,604
1909 - 2001
HPI: 46.59
Rank: 4,605
1941 - 2014
HPI: 46.59
Rank: 4,606
1910 - 1963
HPI: 46.59
Rank: 4,607
1971 - Present
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 4,608
1659 - 1730
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 4,609
Among people born in 250 BC, Philaenis ranks 28. Before 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 50. Before 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.
250 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 22
250 BC - 228 BC
HPI: 49.58
Rank: 23
250 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 49.31
Rank: 24
250 BC - 170 BC
HPI: 48.98
Rank: 25
250 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 26
250 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 47.56
Rank: 27
250 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 46.60
Rank: 28
250 BC - 130 BC
HPI: 46.46
Rank: 29
400 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 49.27
Rank: 44
300 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 48.56
Rank: 45
292 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 48.45
Rank: 46
250 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 47
250 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 47.56
Rank: 48
300 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 49
250 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 46.60
Rank: 50
320 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 46.12
Rank: 51
300 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 44.83
Rank: 52
Among people born in Greece, Philaenis ranks 693 out of 936. Before 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).
1946 - Present
HPI: 46.81
Rank: 687
1934 - 2012
HPI: 46.73
Rank: 688
1977 - Present
HPI: 46.72
Rank: 689
1965 - Present
HPI: 46.66
Rank: 690
1878 - 1920
HPI: 46.65
Rank: 691
1877 - 1952
HPI: 46.61
Rank: 692
250 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 46.60
Rank: 693
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 694
1955 - 2020
HPI: 46.53
Rank: 695
1980 - Present
HPI: 46.49
Rank: 696
1950 - Present
HPI: 46.47
Rank: 697
1925 - 1977
HPI: 46.47
Rank: 698
1957 - Present
HPI: 46.46
Rank: 699
Among writers born in Greece, Philaenis ranks 79. Before 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).
1553 - 1616
HPI: 49.62
Rank: 73
530 BC - 480 BC
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 74
1943 - 2021
HPI: 49.09
Rank: 75
1856 - 1927
HPI: 49.03
Rank: 76
450 BC - 450 BC
HPI: 48.59
Rank: 77
1896 - 1928
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 78
250 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 46.60
Rank: 79
1873 - 1932
HPI: 46.33
Rank: 80
1931 - 2020
HPI: 45.95
Rank: 81
1890 - 1969
HPI: 45.87
Rank: 82
1925 - 2020
HPI: 45.50
Rank: 83
1902 - 1930
HPI: 44.21
Rank: 84
1811 - 1869
HPI: 43.83
Rank: 85