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Catullus

84 BC - 54 BC

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Gaius Valerius Catullus (Classical Latin: [ˈɡaːiʊs waˈɫɛriʊs kaˈtʊllʊs]; c. 84 – c. 54 BC), known as Catullus (kə-TUL-əs), was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Catullus has received more than 1,180,537 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Catullus is the 137th most popular writer (up from 144th in 2019), the 176th most popular biography from Italy (down from 173rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Italian Writer.

Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Roman poet who is most famous for his poems to his lover, Lesbia.

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  • 74.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 67

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Catullus ranks 137 out of 5,755. Before him are August Strindberg, Carlo Collodi, Günter Grass, Charles Baudelaire, Rudyard Kipling, and Charlotte Brontë. After him are Tove Jansson, William Blake, H. G. Wells, Kālidāsa, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Aldous Huxley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 84 BC, Catullus ranks 1. After him are Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, Surena, and Publius Servilius Casca. Among people deceased in 54 BC, Catullus ranks 1. After him are Ariovistus, Julia, Aurelia Cotta, Mithridates IV of Parthia, Quintus Titurius Sabinus, and Dumnorix.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Catullus ranks 176 out of 4,668. Before him are Boethius (480), Galba (-3), Catherine of Siena (1347), Pope Sixtus IV (1414), Pompey (-106), and Pope Clement XI (1649). After him are Pope Pius IV (1499), Giorgione (1478), Pope Gregory XII (1335), Pope Julius III (1487), Suetonius (70), and Pope Paul IV (1476).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Catullus ranks 13. Before him are Umberto Eco (1932), Giacomo Casanova (1725), Giorgio Vasari (1511), Cato the Elder (-243), Plautus (-254), and Carlo Collodi (1826). After him are Guillaume Apollinaire (1880), Pliny the Younger (61), Juvenal (50), Luigi Pirandello (1867), Torquato Tasso (1544), and Sallust (-86).

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