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Pindar

517 BC - 437 BC

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Pindar (; Ancient Greek: Πίνδαρος Pindaros [píndaros]; Latin: Pindarus; c. 518 BC – c. 438 BC) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as Horace rightly held, make him inimitable." His poems can also, however, seem difficult and even peculiar. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pindar has received more than 1,134,546 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Pindar is the 168th most popular writer (down from 147th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Greece (down from 47th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Greek Writer.

Pindar is most famous for his odes, a type of lyric poetry.

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  • 73.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 67

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pindar ranks 168 out of 7,302. Before him are Heinrich Böll, Menander, Cyrano de Bergerac, Nicolas Flamel, Ivan Turgenev, and H. G. Wells. After him are Yasunari Kawabata, Orhan Pamuk, Karel Čapek, Pliny the Younger, François-René de Chateaubriand, and Wisława Szymborska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 517 BC, Pindar ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 437 BC, Pindar ranks 1. 

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    Pindar

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    517 BC - 437 BC

    HPI: 73.62

    Rank: 1

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    Pindar

    WRITER

    517 BC - 437 BC

    HPI: 73.62

    Rank: 1

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Pindar ranks 52 out of 1,024. Before him are Aristarchus of Samos (-311), Praxiteles (-395), Constantine II of Greece (1940), Peisistratos (-600), Menander (-342), and Pope Sixtus II (215). After him are Queen Sofía of Spain (1938), Vangelis (1943), Antisthenes (-445), Miltiades (-540), Seleucus I Nicator (-358), and Pyrrho (-365).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Pindar ranks 8. Before him are Sophocles (-497), Euripides (-480), Aristophanes (-448), Aeschylus (-525), Sappho (-630), and Menander (-342). After him are Nikos Kazantzakis (1883), Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620), Archilochus (-680), Nâzım Hikmet (1902), Simonides of Ceos (-556), and Arion (-700).

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