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Simonides of Ceos

556 BC - 468 BC

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His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2024). Simonides of Ceos is the 348th most popular writer (up from 357th in 2024), the 93rd most popular biography from Greece (up from 96th 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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Among Writers

Among writers, Simonides of Ceos ranks 348 out of 7,302Before him are Arion, Archilochus, Mikhail Lermontov, Amos Oz, Eyvind Johnson, and Paul Valéry. After him are Marguerite Duras, Peter Drucker, Roald Dahl, Luqman, Giorgos Seferis, and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 556 BC, Simonides of Ceos ranks 1After 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 93 out of NaNBefore him are Irene Papas (1929), Mikis Theodorakis (1925), Mardonius (-600), Hippias (-443), Arion (-700), and Archilochus (-680). After him are Hephaestion (-356), Philip III of Macedon (-359), Alexander of Greece (1893), John III Doukas Vatatzes (1192), Lysimachus (-361), and Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt (1789).

Among Writers In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Simonides of Ceos ranks 13Before him are Pindar (-517), Menander (-342), Nikos Kazantzakis (1883), Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620), Arion (-700), and Archilochus (-680). After him are Demetrius Vikelas (1835), Phaedrus (-20), Lysias (-445), Nâzım Hikmet (1902), Hellanicus of Lesbos (-490), and Longus (110).

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