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Maximus Planudes
Byzantine anthologist, translator · Academics · Lived 1260 to 1305 · aged 45
Maximus Planudes was a Byzantine Greek monk, scholar, anthologist, translator, mathematician, grammarian and theologian at Constantinople. Through his translations from Latin into Greek and from Greek into Latin, he brought the Greek East and the Latin West into closer contact with one another.
Maximus Planudes is read about 25 times a day, in 28 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 3 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 147 days, one point a day.
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![The early-14th century map of the British Isles from the Codex Vatopedinus 655,[4] sometimes associated with Planudes.](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Add_19391_19-20.png/1280px-Add_19391_19-20.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
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He is now best known as a compiler of the Greek Anthology.
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1260 to 1305 · aged 45
