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Apollonius of Rhodes

295 BC - 215 BC

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His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2024). Apollonius of Rhodes is the 332nd most popular writer (up from 346th in 2024), the 65th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 67th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Egyptian Writer.

Apollonius of Rhodes is most famous for his epic poem the Argonautica, which follows Jason and the Argonauts on their quest to find the Golden Fleece.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Apollonius of Rhodes ranks 332 out of 7,302Before him are Colette, Anne Brontë, André Malraux, William Golding, Callimachus, and Jaggi Vasudev. After him are Philip K. Dick, Michael Ende, Saadi Shirazi, Christine de Pizan, Mario Puzo, and Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 295 BC, Apollonius of Rhodes ranks 1After him is Publius Claudius Pulcher. Among people deceased in 215 BC, Apollonius of Rhodes ranks 1After him are Hiero II of Syracuse, Samprati, and Lucius Postumius Albinus.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Apollonius of Rhodes ranks 65 out of NaNBefore him are Manetho (-201), Cleopatra Selene II (-40), Seqenenre Tao (-1600), Shoshenq I (-1000), Wazner (-3500), and Ptolemy VI Philometor (-184). After him are Dorothy Hodgkin (1910), Saint Sarah (100), Sextus Empiricus (160), Tiye (-1398), Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951), and Mary of Egypt (344).

Among Writers In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Apollonius of Rhodes ranks 2Before him are Naguib Mahfouz (1911). After him are Appian (95), Sayyid Qutb (1906), Constantine P. Cavafy (1863), Athenaeus (200), Lactantius (250), Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876), Claudian (370), Nonnus (500), Dionysius Thrax (-170), and Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190).

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