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Simonides of Ceos

556 BC - 468 BC

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Simonides of Ceos (; Ancient Greek: Σιμωνίδης ὁ Κεῖος; c. 556 – 468 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, born in Ioulis on Ceos. The scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria included him in the canonical list of the nine lyric poets esteemed by them as worthy of critical study. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simonides of Ceos has received more than 416,314 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Simonides of Ceos is the 357th most popular writer (down from 290th in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Greece (down from 88th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Greek Writer.

Simonides of Ceos is most famous for his poem on the battle of Thermopylae.

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  • 420k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Simonides of Ceos ranks 357 out of 7,302. Before him are Ken Follett, Louise Glück, Yunus Emre, Ahmad Yasawi, Herta Müller, and Mikhail Lermontov. After him are James Fenimore Cooper, Jorge Amado, Margaret Mitchell, Christine de Pizan, Ian Fleming, and Mahmoud Darwish.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 556 BC, Simonides of Ceos ranks 1. After him is Zuo Qiuming. Among people deceased in 468 BC, Simonides of Ceos ranks 1. 

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Simonides of Ceos ranks 96 out of 1,024. Before him are Cimon (-510), Lysimachus (-361), Nâzım Hikmet (1902), Dionysius the Areopagite (100), Alexander of Greece (1893), and Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt (1789). After him are Aristides (-550), Saint Titus (13), Philomena (291), Agrippina the Elder (-14), Nestor (null), and Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (1882).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Simonides of Ceos ranks 13. Before him are Menander (-342), Pindar (-517), Nikos Kazantzakis (1883), Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620), Archilochus (-680), and Nâzım Hikmet (1902). After him are Arion (-700), Phaedrus (-20), Lysias (-445), Tyrtaeus (-700), Periander (-700), and Agathias (536).

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