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Athenaeus

200 - 223

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Athenaeus of Naucratis (, Ancient Greek: Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, Athēnaios Naukratitēs or Naukratios; Latin: Athenaeus Naucratita) was an ancient Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. The Suda says only that he lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius, but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus, who died in 192, implies that he survived that emperor. He was a contemporary of Adrantus. Athenaeus himself states that he was the author of a treatise on the thratta, a type of fish mentioned by Archippus and other comic poets, and of a history of the Syrian kings. Both works are lost. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Athenaeus is the 447th most popular writer (up from 470th in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from Egypt and the 6th most popular Egyptian Writer.

Athenaeus is most famous for his Deipnosophistae, a work in which he wrote about the culture of the ancient Greeks.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Athenaeus ranks 447 out of 7,302. Before him are Andrzej Sapkowski, Qu Yuan, Henri Barbusse, Vuk Karadžić, Jim Corbett, and Raymond Chandler. After him are Henry James, Philip Larkin, Thomas De Quincey, Philip Roth, Demetrius Vikelas, and Jo Nesbø.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 200, Athenaeus ranks 12. Before him are Saint Cecilia, Cyprian, Pope Stephen I, Pope Dionysius, Pope Fabian, and Claudius Aelianus. After him are Hua Tuo, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Artabanus IV of Parthia, Celsus, Zhang Jue, and Artemidorus. Among people deceased in 223, Athenaeus ranks 3. Before him are Liu Bei, and Pope Callixtus I. After him are Cao Ren, Jia Xu, Zhou Tai, and Cao Zhang.

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    Liu Bei

    POLITICIAN

    161 - 223

    HPI: 78.72

    Rank: 1

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    Pope Callixtus I

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    180 - 223

    HPI: 75.70

    Rank: 2

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    Athenaeus

    WRITER

    200 - 223

    HPI: 73.38

    Rank: 3

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    Cao Ren

    MILITARY PERSONNEL

    168 - 223

    HPI: 67.28

    Rank: 4

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    Jia Xu

    POLITICIAN

    147 - 223

    HPI: 66.63

    Rank: 5

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    Zhou Tai

    MILITARY PERSONNEL

    163 - 223

    HPI: 64.68

    Rank: 6

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    Cao Zhang

    POLITICIAN

    190 - 223

    HPI: 63.45

    Rank: 7

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Athenaeus ranks 92 out of 642. Before him are Cleopatra V of Egypt (-100), Hassan al-Banna (1906), Djedefre (-2600), Sosigenes of Alexandria (-80), Al-Kamil (1177), and Eric Hobsbawm (1917). After him are Psamtik I (-700), Muhammad Abduh (1849), Lactantius (250), Arsinoe IV of Egypt (-68), Moses the Black (332), and Saint Menas (285).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Athenaeus ranks 6. Before him are Naguib Mahfouz (1911), Apollonius of Rhodes (-295), Appian (95), Sayyid Qutb (1906), and Constantine P. Cavafy (1863). After him are Lactantius (250), Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876), Claudian (370), Nonnus (500), Dionysius Thrax (-170), and Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190).

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