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Apuleius

125 - 170

Apuleius

Apuleius (; also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – after 170) was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He lived in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern-day M'Daourouch, Algeria. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Apuleius has received more than 567,088 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Apuleius is the 125th most popular writer (up from 137th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Algeria (up from 4th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Algerian Writer.

Apuleius is most famous for writing the novel The Golden Ass, which tells the story of a man who is turned into an ass and then transformed back into a human.

Memorability Metrics

570k
Page Views (PV)
75.60
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
66
Languages Editions (L)
12.60
Effective Languages (L*)
2.63
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Apuleius ranks 125 out of 5,755. Before him are Yukio Mishima, Henry David Thoreau, Paul Verlaine, Alexandre Dumas fils, Matsuo Bashō, and Jean Cocteau. After him are H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Louis Stevenson, Haruki Murakami, Walter Scott, Guy de Maupassant, and August Strindberg.

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Yukio Mishima
1925 - 1970
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 119
Henry David Thoreau
1817 - 1862
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 120
Paul Verlaine
1844 - 1896
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 121
Alexandre Dumas fils
1824 - 1895
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 122
Matsuo Bashō
1644 - 1694
HPI: 75.69
Rank: 123
Jean Cocteau
1889 - 1963
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 124
Apuleius
125 - 170
HPI: 75.60
Rank: 125
H. P. Lovecraft
1890 - 1937
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 126
Robert Louis Stevenson
1850 - 1894
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 127
Haruki Murakami
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 128
Walter Scott
1771 - 1832
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 129
Guy de Maupassant
1850 - 1893
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 130
August Strindberg
1849 - 1912
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 131

Contemporaries

Among people born in 125, Apuleius ranks 1. After him are Faustina the Younger and Polycrates of Ephesus. Among people deceased in 170, Apuleius ranks 2. Before him is Ptolemy. After him are Salvius Julianus and Junius Rusticus.