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Averages 10 posts/day, top 25% activity. Most active Sundays around 9 AM UTC. Mostly text posts.

Posts / Day Average posts per day this month. Arrow is change vs the prior calendar month.
10 110%
Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post this month (upvotes minus downvotes). Arrow is change vs the prior month.
35 204%
Avg Comments Mean number of comments per post this month. Arrow is change vs the prior month when that month’s data is available.
25 214%
Activity Rank #13,970 by posts/day among 92,652 tracked SFW subreddits as of Jul 2026 (Top 25%). Arrow is spots gained or lost vs the prior month.
#13,970 9,889
Top 25%
Posts w/ Links The percentage of posts that link off-site. This counts true link posts plus text posts with a URL in the body. Image and video posts are not counted.
35%
Low-Reply Rate Share of posts with 0 or 1 comment. A single comment is often an automated mod reply rather than real community discussion.
34%

r/classics Traffic & Engagement

Volume and engagement over time

Posts/DayAvg Upvotes01020300200400600Jul 1Jul 8Jul 15Jul 22Jul 29
Posts/Day Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post in this bucket.

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Top Post Type Text
Typical Title Length Medium (60 chars)
Peak Day Thursday

Upvote Distribution

How upvoted posts perform Only posts with 2+ upvotes. The bands below show how those posts are spread by upvote count.

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46%
10–99
46%
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7%
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2%
Posts that get upvoted Share of posts that received at least one upvote (2+ net upvotes). Most posts at 1 upvote are excluded. 53%
Median upvoted post Median upvotes among posts that received upvotes. Differs from Avg Upvotes in the snapshot, which includes every post. 11
Top post Highest upvote count on a single post this month. 3.1K

r/classics Most Active Times

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Most Active by Day

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Mon 12 PM
Tue 5 PM
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Sat 12 PM

r/classics Flair Performance

Upvotes and volume by flair

Flair Posts Upvotes
Rule#121 (77.8%)1
Rule#66 (22.2%)11

Post Type Breakdown

Share by text, image, or link

53%text posts

r/classics Trending Keywords

Ranked by how often they appear

KeywordMentions ▼UpvotesComments
odyssey
99 (31.1%)
7542
translation
28 (8.8%)
39
iliad
21 (6.6%)
1325
greek
20 (6.3%)
1024
read
20 (6.3%)
1716
nolan
19 (6.0%)
175125
think
19 (6.0%)
20784
homer
18 (5.7%)
2943
nolan's
17 (5.3%)
7544
classics
15 (4.7%)
12769

r/classics Mentioned Domains

Most linked sites

Domain Links Upvotes
youtu.be51
youtube.com50
open.substack.com42

r/classics Top Posts

Highest-performing posts

The Odyssey.

3.1K upvotes 53 comments image Jul 16

Emily Wilson on Nolan’s Odyssey: “I don’t think it’s a complicated movie. And I don’t think it’s even about a complicated man. I think it’s a quite simple action hero movie about an action hero who feels bad about being an action hero.”

1.3K upvotes 420 comments link Jul 24

Emily Wilson critiques Christopher Nolan’s adaptation for emphasizing Odysseus’ “shame” over heroic “glory,” calling it a modern psychiatric revision of the character

1.1K upvotes 534 comments image Jul 21

As a Classics professor, I expected Nolan's ‘The Odyssey’ to fail. I was wrong. It is faithful in all the right ways | (Review from USC Classics Professor Stefano Rebegianni)

632 upvotes 368 comments link Jul 28

Guys, Emily Wilson is not the only Homeric scholar out there…

415 upvotes 158 comments text Jul 29

I’m a Classicist. Were Emily Wilson and I Watching the Same Odyssey Movie? | The celebrated translator used baffling arguments to flay Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s poem.

390 upvotes 628 comments link Jul 30

Love or hate Nolan's Odyssey but seeing a rejuvenated interest in the classics is great

389 upvotes 61 comments text Jul 22

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

354 upvotes 759 comments link Jul 27

The most authentic thing about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is its densely braided narrative, but its tormented hero sounds like the heroes of Christopher Nolan movies. By Daniel Mendelsohn

147 upvotes 46 comments link Jul 19

This is my current classics collection I’m planning to read deeply for the next two years, is it a good introduction to it all?

115 upvotes 28 comments image Jul 7

r/classics Audience Overlap

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r/classics FAQ

What's the best time to post on r/classics?

Based on posting volume, r/classics is most active on Sundays around 9 AM UTC. That window has the most community activity, but busier hours also mean more competition for attention.

How active is r/classics?

r/classics averages 10 posts per day and ranks in the top 25% for activity among tracked SFW subreddits.

How many upvotes do posts on r/classics get?

Posts on r/classics average about 35 upvotes this month (net score per post).

What kind of posts does r/classics get most?

On r/classics, posts are a mix of formats, mostly text posts