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Livy

59 BC - 17

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Titus Livius (Latin: [ˈtɪtʊs ˈliːwiʊs]; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy ( LIV-ee), was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled Ab Urbe Condita, ''From the Founding of the City'', covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding in 753 BC through the reign of Augustus in Livy's own lifetime. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Livy has received more than 1,736,644 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). Livy is the 7th most popular historian (down from 6th in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from Italy (down from 75th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Historian.

Livy is most famous for his history of Rome.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 77.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 86

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Livy ranks 7 out of 561. Before him are Herodotus, Josephus, Ibn Khaldun, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Sima Qian. After him are Polybius, Tacitus, Suetonius, Alexis de Tocqueville, Diodorus Siculus, and Hecataeus of Miletus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 59 BC, Livy ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 17, Livy ranks 2. Before him is Ovid. After him are Gaius Julius Hyginus, Thusnelda, Archelaus of Cappadocia, and Antiochus III of Commagene.

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    Livy

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    59 BC - 17

    HPI: 77.40

    Rank: 1

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Livy ranks 91 out of 5,161. Before him are Michael Collins (1930), Pope Gregory XIII (1502), Pope Sylvester I (300), Masaccio (1401), Sonia Gandhi (1946), and Pope Benedict XV (1854). After him are Girolamo Savonarola (1452), Pope Sixtus IV (1414), Antonio Stradivari (1644), Pope Paul VI (1897), Toto Cutugno (1943), and Bud Spencer (1929).

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Among HISTORIANS In Italy

Among historians born in Italy, Livy ranks 1. After him are Suetonius (70), Diodorus Siculus (-90), Euhemerus (-330), Leonardo Bruni (1370), Marcus Velleius Paterculus (-19), Francesco Guicciardini (1483), Poggio Bracciolini (1380), Carlo Ginzburg (1939), Flavio Biondo (1388), Timaeus (-350), and Tyrannius Rufinus (345).

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