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Theopompus

400 BC - 320 BC

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Theopompus (Ancient Greek: Θεόπομπος, Theópompos; c. 380 BC – c. 315 BC) was an ancient Greek historian and rhetorician who was a student of Isocrates. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Theopompus is the 65th most popular historian, the 191st most popular biography from Greece and the 6th most popular Greek Historian.

Theopompus was most famous for his writings on the history of Philip II of Macedon.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Theopompus ranks 65 out of 561Before him are John Skylitzes, Francesco Guicciardini, Libanius, Theophylact Simocatta, Poggio Bracciolini, and Al-Baladhuri. After him are Heinrich Wölfflin, Gaston Maspero, Benzion Netanyahu, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Bernard Lewis, and Al-Dhahabi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 400 BC, Theopompus ranks 12Before him are Thaïs, Porus, Atropates, Teos of Egypt, Berossus, and Leochares. After him are Spitamenes, Drypetis, Ephorus, Mithridates I of Pontus, Stateira I, and Agnodice. Among people deceased in 320 BC, Theopompus ranks 1After him are Anaxarchus, Zoilus, Anaximenes of Lampsacus, and Dinostratus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Theopompus ranks 191 out of 1,024Before him are Demetrius Vikelas (1835), Thrasybulus (-440), Karolos Papoulias (1929), Herodes Atticus (101), Leochares (-400), and Nearchus (-356). After him are Aenesidemus (-80), Hipparchia of Maroneia (-350), Odysseas Elytis (1911), Erasistratus (-303), Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (1914), and Exekias (-501).

Among HISTORIANS In Greece

Among historians born in Greece, Theopompus ranks 6Before him are Thucydides (-460), Xenophon (-430), Polybius (-208), Quintus Curtius Rufus (41), and Callisthenes (-360). After him are Afet İnan (1908), Michael Glykas (1125), Philochorus (-340), Krste Misirkov (1874), Marsyas of Pella (-400), and Helene Ahrweiler (1926).