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Pindar

517 BC - 437 BC

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Pindar (; 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 899,186 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 63 in 2019). Pindar is the 147th most popular writer (up from 153rd in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Greece (down from 39th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Greek Writer.

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

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  • 900k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 74.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pindar ranks 147 out of 5,755. Before him are Kālidāsa, Mikhail Bulgakov, Aldous Huxley, Guillaume Apollinaire, Emily Brontë, and Murasaki Shikibu. After him are Elias Canetti, Ivo Andrić, Eugène Ionesco, Heinrich Böll, Joseph Conrad, and André Breton.

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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

    517 BC - 437 BC

    HPI: 74.05

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    517 BC - 437 BC

    HPI: 74.05

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Pindar ranks 47 out of 936. Before him are Aristarchus of Samos (-311), Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769), Leucippus (-500), Alcibiades (-450), Peisistratos (-600), and Draco (-650). After him are Mikis Theodorakis (1925), Praxiteles (-395), Olympias (-375), Handan Sultan (1574), Theophrastus (-371), and Menander (-342).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Pindar ranks 7. Before him are Homer (-800), Sophocles (-497), Aeschylus (-525), Aristophanes (-448), Euripides (-480), and Sappho (-630). After him are Menander (-342), Nikos Kazantzakis (1883), Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620), Archilochus (-680), Simonides of Ceos (-556), and Nâzım Hikmet (1902).

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