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Angelos Sikelianos

1884 - 1951

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Angelos Sikelianos (Greek: Άγγελος Σικελιανός [sikeʎaˈnos]; 28 March 1884 – 19 June 1951) was a Greek lyric poet and playwright. His themes include Greek history, religious symbolism as well as universal harmony in poems such as The Moonstruck, Prologue to Life, Mother of God, and Delphic Utterance. His plays include Sibylla, Daedalus in Crete, Christ in Rome, The Death of Digenis, The Dithyramb of the Rose and Asklepius. Although occasionally his grandiloquence blunts the poetic effect of his work, some of Sikelianos finer lyrics are among the best in Western literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Angelos Sikelianos is the 3,439th most popular writer (up from 3,555th in 2019), the 604th most popular biography from Greece (down from 603rd in 2019) and the 68th most popular Greek Writer.

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Among writers, Angelos Sikelianos ranks 3,439 out of 7,302. Before him are Ravindra Prabhat, Natsuo Kirino, Roberto Arlt, Edith Durham, Ai Yazawa, and Wallace Stevens. After him are Futabatei Shimei, Iain Banks, Mouloud Mammeri, Michel Ocelot, Laza Lazarević, and Remigius of Auxerre.

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Among people born in 1884, Angelos Sikelianos ranks 119. Before him are Sekula Drljević, Frank Waller, Ludowika Jakobsson, Solomon Lefschetz, Dénes Kőnig, and Evelyn Nesbit. After him are Jack Greenwell, Gösta Lilliehöök, Bohumil Kubišta, Rickard Sandler, Blanche Stuart Scott, and Bernhard Goetzke. Among people deceased in 1951, Angelos Sikelianos ranks 107. Before him are Pedro Salinas, Selim Palmgren, José Enrique Varela, Edgar Rubin, Alphonse de Châteaubriant, and Fritz Julius Kuhn. After him are Harry Kerr, Tilemachos Karakalos, Fréhel, Max Horton, Peter Cheyney, and Louis Adamic.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Angelos Sikelianos ranks 604 out of 1,024. Before him are Phaenias of Eresus (-400), Andronicus of Cyrrhus (-200), Musaeus of Athens (-500), Georgios Zoitakis (1910), Spyridon Trikoupis (1788), and Myrtis of Anthedon (-500). After him are Lesches (-700), Evangelos Damaskos (1801), Diocles of Carystus (-400), Francesco Barozzi (1537), Doryssus (null), and Ioannis Rallis (1878).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Angelos Sikelianos ranks 68. Before him are Alexandros Papadiamantis (1851), Theodor Kallifatides (1938), Phylarchus (-255), Philostratus of Lemnos (200), Rhianus (-275), and Myrtis of Anthedon (-500). After him are Lesches (-700), Vassilis Vassilikos (1933), Philoxenus of Cythera (-435), Vassilis Alexakis (1943), Vitsentzos Kornaros (1553), and Alberto Savinio (1891).

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