500 - 500
Nonnus of Panopolis (Greek: Νόννος ὁ Πανοπολίτης, Nónnos ho Panopolítēs) was a Greek epic poet of Hellenized Egypt in the Imperial Roman era. He was a native of Panopolis (Akhmim) in the Egyptian Thebaid and probably lived in the 5th century AD. He is known as the composer of the Dionysiaca, an epic tale of the god Dionysus, and of the Metabole, a paraphrase of the Gospel of John. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nonnus has received more than 95,594 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Nonnus is the 821st most popular writer (down from 767th in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 139th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Egyptian Writer.
Nonnus is most famous for his epic poem Dionysiaca, which is a long narrative poem about the life of Dionysus.
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Among writers, Nonnus ranks 821 out of 5,794. Before him are Milorad Pavić, Peter Weiss, Arrigo Boito, Ann Radcliffe, Jacinto Benavente, and Chevalier d'Éon. After him are Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Jaroslav Seifert, Daniel Keyes, Al-Zamakhshari, Jean Anouilh, and Mori Ōgai.
1929 - 2009
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 815
1916 - 1982
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 816
1842 - 1918
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 817
1764 - 1823
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 818
1866 - 1954
HPI: 71.45
Rank: 819
1728 - 1810
HPI: 71.44
Rank: 820
500 - 500
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 821
1964 - 2020
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 822
1901 - 1986
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 823
1927 - 2014
HPI: 71.37
Rank: 824
1075 - 1144
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 825
1910 - 1987
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 826
1862 - 1922
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 827
Among people born in 500, Nonnus ranks 9. Before him are Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Totila, Pope Vigilius, Sigismund of Burgundy, Basiliscus, and Peroz I. After him are Yazdegerd II, Antipope Laurentius, Antipope Dioscorus, Balash, Ambrosius Aurelianus, and Gundobad. Among people deceased in 500, Nonnus ranks 1. After him are Zu Chongzhi, Chandragupta II, Buddhaghosa, Charaton, Anthemius, Rutilius Claudius Namatianus, Calcidius, Faustus of Byzantium, Respendial, Caradoc, and Coelius Sedulius.
500 - 510
HPI: 75.58
Rank: 3
500 - 552
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 4
500 - 555
HPI: 73.82
Rank: 5
500 - 524
HPI: 73.05
Rank: 6
500 - 476
HPI: 71.68
Rank: 7
500 - 484
HPI: 71.66
Rank: 8
500 - 500
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 9
500 - 457
HPI: 70.59
Rank: 10
500 - 507
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 11
500 - 530
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 12
500 - 488
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 13
500 - Present
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 14
500 - 516
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 15
500 - 500
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 1
429 - 500
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 2
400 - 500
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 3
401 - 500
HPI: 67.82
Rank: 4
400 - 500
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 5
400 - 500
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 6
420 - 500
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 7
400 - 500
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 8
390 - 500
HPI: 63.81
Rank: 9
400 - 500
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 10
470 - 500
HPI: 62.86
Rank: 11
400 - 500
HPI: 62.81
Rank: 12
Among people born in Egypt, Nonnus ranks 138 out of 520. Before him are Isetnofret (-1250), Theon of Alexandria (335), Kiya (-1400), Arsinoe IV of Egypt (-68), Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190), and Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria (1923). After him are Smendes (-1200), Theophylact Simocatta (580), Abbas II of Egypt (1874), Apepi (-1600), Mentuhotep I (-2200), and Mohamed Hussein Tantawi (1935).
1250 BC - Present
HPI: 71.64
Rank: 132
335 - 405
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 133
1400 BC - 1400 BC
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 134
68 BC - 41 BC
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 135
190 - 264
HPI: 71.48
Rank: 136
1923 - 2012
HPI: 71.48
Rank: 137
500 - 500
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 138
1200 BC - 1052 BC
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 139
580 - 630
HPI: 71.32
Rank: 140
1874 - 1944
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 141
1600 BC - 1549 BC
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 142
2200 BC - 2200 BC
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 143
1935 - Present
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 144
Among writers born in Egypt, Nonnus ranks 11. Before him are Apollonius of Rhodes (-295), Lactantius (250), Sayyid Qutb (1906), Athenaeus (200), Claudian (370), and Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190). After him are Taha Hussein (1889), Dionysius Thrax (-170), Achilles Tatius (200), Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888), Anastasius Sinaita (630), and Ahmed Shawqi (1868).
295 BC - 215 BC
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 5
250 - 325
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 6
1906 - 1966
HPI: 74.83
Rank: 7
200 - 223
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 8
370 - 404
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 9
190 - 264
HPI: 71.48
Rank: 10
500 - 500
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 11
1889 - 1973
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 12
170 BC - 89 BC
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 13
200 - 300
HPI: 69.02
Rank: 14
1888 - 1970
HPI: 67.96
Rank: 15
630 - 701
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 16
1868 - 1932
HPI: 66.58
Rank: 17