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Lucius Accius

170 BC - 84 BC

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Lucius Accius (; 170 – c. 86 BC), or Lucius Attius, was a Roman tragic poet and literary scholar. Accius was born in 170 BC at Pisaurum, a town founded in the Ager Gallicus in 184 BC. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lucius Accius has received more than 106,022 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 30 in 2019). Lucius Accius is the 925th most popular writer (up from 977th in 2019), the 1,057th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,106th in 2019) and the 79th most popular Italian Writer.

Lucius Accius is most famous for his play, "The Trojan Women," which is a tragedy about the aftermath of the Trojan War.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lucius Accius ranks 925 out of 7,302. Before him are Thomas Wolfe, Clifford D. Simak, Jacques Clément, James May, Jens Peter Jacobsen, and Miep Gies. After him are Vinicius de Moraes, Joost van den Vondel, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Ann Radcliffe, W. G. Sebald, and Aimé Césaire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 170 BC, Lucius Accius ranks 1. After him are Dionysius Thrax, Eucratides I, and Attalus III. Among people deceased in 84 BC, Lucius Accius ranks 2. Before him is Lucius Cornelius Cinna. After him are Antiochus XII Dionysus, and Gaius Flavius Fimbria.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Lucius Accius ranks 1,057 out of 5,161. Before him are Luigi Cadorna (1850), Roberto Cavalli (1940), Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (1774), Constance of Sicily, Queen of Aragon (1249), Charles Felix of Sardinia (1765), and Bruttia Crispina (164). After him are Bettino Craxi (1934), Gaspare Spontini (1774), Francesco Primaticcio (1504), Giacomo Matteotti (1885), Gerard of Csanád (980), and Sergio Corbucci (1926).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Lucius Accius ranks 79. Before him are Venantius Fortunatus (530), Gerard of Cremona (1114), Vittoria Colonna (1490), Stesichorus (-630), Gaius Lucilius (-180), and Gnaeus Naevius (-275). After him are Rustichello da Pisa (1290), Chiara Lubich (1920), Quintus Tullius Cicero (-102), Vladimir Bartol (1903), Guido Cavalcanti (1258), and Persius (34).

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