# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/romanos-the-melodist
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:39:20.465Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/romanos-the-melodist"
name: "Romanos the Melodist"
slug: "romanos-the-melodist"
description: "Romanos the Melodist was a Byzantine hymnographer and composer, who is a central early figure in the history of Byzantine music. Called \"the Pindar of rhythmic poetry\", he flourished during the sixth century, though the earliest manuscripts of his works are dated centuries after this. He was the foremost Kontakion composer of his time."
tagline: "Greek hymnographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1649._%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%9E.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "490"
deathDate: "556"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.85
  momentum:             5.208333333333333
  historical:           22.20853733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ρωμανός ο Μελωδός"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanos_Kauniltlaulja"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Romanos Melodos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Роман Слаткопевец"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Romanos Meloden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Roman lo Melode"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Roman Melodos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Romano, o Melodista"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Roman Melodul"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump