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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 516,184 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Apuleius is the 137th most popular writer (down from 118th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Algeria 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

520k
Page Views (PV)
81.01
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
61
Languages Editions (L)
11.42
Effective Languages (L*)
2.64
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Apuleius ranks 137 out of 5,794. Before him are Carlo Collodi, Kālidāsa, Heinrich Böll, Boris Pasternak, Sully Prudhomme, and Günter Grass. After him are Guillaume Apollinaire, Charlotte Brontë, Eugène Ionesco, Tove Jansson, Aldous Huxley, and Haruki Murakami.

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Carlo Collodi
1826 - 1890
HPI: 81.14
Rank: 131
Kālidāsa
400 - 420
HPI: 81.11
Rank: 132
Heinrich Böll
1917 - 1985
HPI: 81.11
Rank: 133
Boris Pasternak
1890 - 1960
HPI: 81.07
Rank: 134
Sully Prudhomme
1839 - 1907
HPI: 81.04
Rank: 135
Günter Grass
1927 - 2015
HPI: 81.03
Rank: 136
Apuleius
125 - 170
HPI: 81.01
Rank: 137
Guillaume Apollinaire
1880 - 1918
HPI: 80.91
Rank: 138
Charlotte Brontë
1816 - 1855
HPI: 80.87
Rank: 139
Eugène Ionesco
1909 - 1994
HPI: 80.83
Rank: 140
Tove Jansson
1914 - 2001
HPI: 80.74
Rank: 141
Aldous Huxley
1894 - 1963
HPI: 80.72
Rank: 142
Haruki Murakami
1949 - Present
HPI: 80.69
Rank: 143

Contemporaries

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