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Rhianus

275 BC - 300 BC

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Rhianus (Greek: Ῥιανὸς ὁ Κρής) was a Greek poet and grammarian, a native of Crete, friend and contemporary of Eratosthenes (275–195 BC). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rhianus has received more than 23,274 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Rhianus is the 3,355th most popular writer, the 582nd most popular biography from Greece and the 67th most popular Greek Writer.

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  • 23k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

De Rhiani Cretensis studiis Homericis: Commentatio ex programmate gymnasii ...
Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
1870

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rhianus ranks 3,355 out of 7,302. Before him are John Ford, Karl Ove Knausgård, Eysteinn Erlendsson, Morgan Robertson, Bernardo Guimarães, and Carmen Laforet. After him are Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Al-A'sha, Rose Wilder Lane, Jean-Claude Izzo, Gunnar Heiberg, and Bharatendu Harishchandra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 275 BC, Rhianus ranks 4. Before him are Hamilcar Barca, Gnaeus Naevius, and Demetrius II Aetolicus.  Among people deceased in 300 BC, Rhianus ranks 39. Before him are Anyte of Tegea, Eudamidas III, Cleombrotus II, Publius Claudius Pulcher, Publius Valerius Laevinus, and Cineas. After him are Diocles of Carystus, Sames I, Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter, Dromichaetes, Eudamidas I, and Deidamia II of Epirus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Rhianus ranks 582 out of 1,024. Before him are Cineas (-400), Antonios Nikopolidis (1971), Ioannis Alevras (1912), Argaeus II of Macedon (-500), Philothei of Athens (1522), and Konstantinos Demertzis (1876). After him are Aris Velouchiotis (1905), Polydorus of Sparta (-741), Diocles of Carystus (-400), Athanasius III of Constantinople (1597), Ioannis Mitropoulos (1874), and Damophon (null).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Rhianus ranks 67. Before him are Kostis Palamas (1859), Antiphanes (-388), Acusilaus (-600), Anyte of Tegea (-290), Theodor Kallifatides (1938), and Alexandros Papadiamantis (1851). After him are Alberto Savinio (1891), Solomon Alkabetz (1505), Onomacritus (-530), Angelos Sikelianos (1884), Lesches (-700), and Philoxenus of Cythera (-435).

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