# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scymnus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:18:45.928Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scymnus"
name: "Scymnus"
slug: "scymnus"
description: "Scymnus of Chios was a Greek geographer from the island of Chios. It was thought he was the author of the Periodos to Nicomedes, a work on geography written in Classical Greek. It is an account of the world in 'comic' iambic trimeters which is dedicated to a King Nicomedes of Bithynia. This is either Nicomedes II Epiphanes who reigned from 149 BC for an unknown number of years or his son, Nicomedes III Euergetes."
tagline: "Ancient Greek geographer"
gender: "male"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           43.2
  momentum:             7.466666666666666
  historical:           11.40486
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BC%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D1%96%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Скімн Хіоський"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BD"
    title: "Скимн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escimne_de_Quios"
    title: "Escimne de Quios"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skymnos"
    title: "Skymnos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%BA%CF%8D%CE%BC%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%BF_%CE%A7%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%82"
    title: "Σκύμνος ο Χίος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scymnus_of_Chios"
    title: "Scymnus of Chios"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skymnos_Khioslainen"
    title: "Skymnos Khioslainen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scymnos_de_Chio"
    title: "Scymnos de Chio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hyw.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D6%84%D5%AB%D5%B4%D5%B6%D5%B8%D5%BD_%D5%80%D5%AB%D5%B8%D5%BD%D6%81%D5%AB%D5%B6"
    title: "Սքիմնոս Հիոսցին"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scimno_di_Chio"
    title: "Scimno di Chio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scymnus"
    title: "Scymnus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Скимн Хиосский"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skymni"
    title: "Skymni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scymnus"
    title: "Scymnus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q278553"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump