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Horace

65 BC - 8 BC

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Classical Latin: [ˈkʷiːntʊs (h)ɔˈraːtiʊs ˈfɫakːʊs]; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words." Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses (Satires and Epistles) and caustic iambic poetry (Epodes). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horace has received more than 2,618,980 page views. His biography is available in 100 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 96 in 2019). Horace is the 31st most popular writer (up from 32nd in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 34th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Italian Writer.

Horace is most famous for his work as a lyric poet.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 81.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 100

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Odes
1635
The works of Horace
1681
Carmina
1712
Satirae
1763
The Castle of Otranto
1764
Opera
1566

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Horace ranks 31 out of 7,302. Before him are Ovid, Rumi, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Giovanni Boccaccio, Denis Diderot, and Agatha Christie. After him are Ernest Hemingway, Alexandre Dumas, Anne Frank, Selma Lagerlöf, Alexander Pushkin, and Friedrich Schiller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 65 BC, Horace ranks 1. After him are Salome I, Cicero Minor, and Polemon I of Pontus. Among people deceased in 8 BC, Horace ranks 1. After him are Gaius Maecenas, and Polemon I of Pontus.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Horace ranks 32 out of 5,161. Before him are Marcus Aurelius (121), Giovanni Boccaccio (1313), Sandro Botticelli (1445), Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (1768), Caligula (12), and Alessandro Volta (1745). After him are Parmenides (-501), Giacomo Puccini (1858), Niccolò Paganini (1782), Maria Montessori (1870), Titian (1488), and Lorenzo de' Medici (1449).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Horace ranks 6. Before him are Dante Alighieri (1265), Virgil (-70), Petrarch (1304), Ovid (-43), and Giovanni Boccaccio (1313). After him are Giacomo Casanova (1725), Umberto Eco (1932), Giorgio Vasari (1511), Guillaume Apollinaire (1880), Plautus (-254), and Cato the Elder (-243).

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