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Tyrtaeus, a Common card
Tyrtaeus was a Greek elegiac poet from Sparta whose works were speculated to fill five books.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 79
- Power
- 150
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 14,000
Ranked #1,958 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Tyrtaeus quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Tyrtaeus card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His works survive from ______ and papyri, and include 250 lines or parts of lines.
Answer
quotations. His works survive from quotations and papyri, and include 250 lines or parts of lines. From the Tyrtaeus article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Maurice Denis. Maurice Denis 20,000 · Tyrtaeus 14,000 · Ion Hanford Perdicaris 11,000 · Vyacheslav Zaitsev 7,900 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- His works survive from quotations and papyri, and include 250 lines or parts of lines.
- He wrote at a time of two crises affecting the city: a civic unrest threatening the authority of kings and elders, later recalled in a poem named Eunomia, where he reminded citizens to respect the divine and constitutional roles of kings, council, and demos, and the Second Messenian War, during which he served as a sort of "state poet", exhorting Spartans to fight to the death for their city.
- In the 4th century BC, when Tyrtaeus was an established classic, Spartan armies on campaign were made to listen to his poetry.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Tyrtaeus article was read about 14,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 79: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Tyrtaeus
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Tyrtaeus (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gustave Moreau, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
