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Simonides of Ceos

556 BC - 468 BC

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Simonides of Ceos (; 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 392,090 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Simonides of Ceos is the 290th most popular writer (up from 315th in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from Greece (down from 83rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Greek Writer.

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

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  • 390k

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  • 69.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Simonides of Ceos ranks 290 out of 5,755. Before him are Tomas Tranströmer, Robert Musil, Archilochus, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Svetlana Alliluyeva, and Ernst Jünger. After him are Alice Munro, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Margaret Mitchell, and Mikhail Sholokhov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 556 BC, Simonides of Ceos ranks 1.  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 88 out of 936. Before him are Hephaestion (-356), Archilochus (-680), Giorgio de Chirico (1888), Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (1882), Antigonus I Monophthalmus (-382), and Aristides (-550). After him are Pheidippides (-600), Lysimachus (-361), Philip III of Macedon (-359), Dionysius the Areopagite (100), George II of Greece (1890), and Oruç Reis (1473).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Simonides of Ceos ranks 12. Before him are Sappho (-630), Pindar (-517), Menander (-342), Nikos Kazantzakis (1883), Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620), and Archilochus (-680). After him are Nâzım Hikmet (1902), Arion (-700), Lysias (-445), Phaedrus (-20), Tyrtaeus (-700), and Longus (110).

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