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Sallust

86 BC - 34 BC

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His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia. Sallust is the 268th most popular writer (down from 259th in 2024), the 388th most popular biography from Italy (down from 343rd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Italian Writer.

Sallust is most famous for his work, The Jugurthine War, which is a history of the war between Rome and King Jugurtha of Numidia.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Sallust ranks 268 out of 7,302Before him are Dale Carnegie, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jordanes, Bartolomé de las Casas, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, and Anna Akhmatova. After him are Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Snorri Sturluson, Jami, Arthur C. Clarke, Quintilian, and Elfriede Jelinek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 86 BC, Sallust ranks 1After him are Antiochus I Theos of Commagene, and Publius Licinius Crassus. Among people deceased in 34 BC, Sallust ranks 1After him is Lucius Scribonius Libo.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Sallust ranks 388 out of NaNBefore him are Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378), Charles Borromeo (1538), Pope Benedict II (635), Philip Neri (1515), Catiline (-109), and Maxentius (278). After him are Man in the Iron Mask (1640), Pope John I (470), Claudio Abbado (1933), Pope John IX (850), Charles IV of Spain (1748), and Pope Mark (290).

Among Writers In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Sallust ranks 22Before him are Torquato Tasso (1544), Pliny the Younger (61), Juvenal (50), Grazia Deledda (1871), Dario Fo (1926), and Primo Levi (1919). After him are Ludovico Ariosto (1474), Marcus Terentius Varro (-116), Luigi Pirandello (1867), Alberto Moravia (1907), Christine de Pizan (1365), and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896).

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