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Praxilla

500 BC - 500 BC

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Praxilla (Greek: Πράξιλλα), was a Greek lyric poet of the 5th century BC from Sicyon on the Gulf of Corinth. Five quotations and three paraphrases from her poems survive. The surviving fragments of her work come from both religious choral lyric and drinking songs (skolia); the three paraphrases are all versions of myths. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Praxilla has received more than 52,878 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Praxilla is the 2,563rd most popular writer (up from 2,759th in 2019), the 480th most popular biography from Greece (up from 508th in 2019) and the 57th most popular Greek Writer.

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  • 53k

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  • 53.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Praxilla ranks 2,563 out of 5,755Before her are Àngel Guimerà, Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari, Ursula Kuczynski, Oscar Cullmann, Yuan Zhen, and Mina Witkojc. After her are William Ernest Henley, Nodar Dumbadze, Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, FM-2030, Uladzimir Karatkievich, and Harold Robbins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 500 BC, Praxilla ranks 64Before her are Hyperbolus, Musaeus of Athens, Li Kui, Pausanias of Macedon, Metrodorus of Chios, and Thrasybulus of Syracuse. After her are Sophron, Timon of Athens, Jason of Pherae, Stateira, Hecatomnus, and Xanthus. Among people deceased in 500 BC, Praxilla ranks 33Before her are Corax of Syracuse, Artaphernes, Agoracritus, Artabazos I of Phrygia, Titus Lartius, and Artystone. After her are Euthymides, Aristodemus of Cumae, Phrynichus, Xanthus, Hydarnes, and Megabates.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Praxilla ranks 480 out of 936Before her are Neferkara I (-2780), Panagiotis Pikrammenos (1945), Peter the Patrician (500), Eurycratides (-600), Agesilaus I (null), and Ioannis Palaiokrassas (1934). After her are Timotheus (-400), Euthymides (-600), Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha (1855), John II Orsini (1300), Phormio (-450), and Polydorus of Sparta (-741).

Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Praxilla ranks 57Before her are Asclepiades of Samos (-320), Victorinus of Pettau (250), Antigonus of Carystus (-290), Theodorus Gaza (1398), Dionysios Solomos (1798), and Posidippus (-310). After her are Philitas of Cos (-400), Phrynichus (-535), Anyte of Tegea (-290), Kostis Palamas (1859), Eumelus of Corinth (-800), and Philostratus of Lemnos (200).