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Posidippus

310 BC - 240 BC

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Posidippus of Pella (Ancient Greek: Ποσείδιππος Poseidippos; c. 310 – c. 240 BC) was an Ancient Greek epigrammatic poet. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Posidippus is the 2,331st most popular writer (down from 1,628th in 2019), the 461st most popular biography from Greece (down from 353rd in 2019) and the 51st most popular Greek Writer.

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Among writers, Posidippus ranks 2,331 out of 7,302Before him are Cornell Woolrich, Bella Rosenfeld, Vasyl Sukhomlynsky, Wieland Wagner, Suman Pokhrel, and Aharon Appelfeld. After him are Afanasy Fet, Maciej Stryjkowski, Vasko Popa, Phocylides, Edmond Jabès, and Zosimos of Panopolis.

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Among people born in 310 BC, Posidippus ranks 2Before him is Callimachus. After him is Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina. Among people deceased in 240 BC, Posidippus ranks 6Before him are Euclid, Callimachus, Arcesilaus, Aratus, and Zou Yan.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Posidippus ranks 461 out of 1,024Before him are Şerif Gören (1944), Podalirius (null), Hermarchus (-325), Archelaus of Sparta (-790), Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece (1967), and Demophon of Eleusis (null). After him are Georgios Karaiskakis (1780), Kostas Karamanlis (1956), Victorinus of Pettau (250), Haris Alexiou (1950), Eupolis (-446), and Miltiades the Elder (-600).

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