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Nossis

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Nossis (Greek: Νοσσίς, fl. c. 300 BC) was a Hellenistic poet from Epizephyrian Locris in Magna Graecia. Probably well-educated and from a noble family, Nossis was influenced by and claimed to rival Sappho. Eleven or twelve of her epigrams, mostly religious dedications and epitaphs, survive in the Greek Anthology, making her one of the best-preserved ancient Greek women poets, though her work does not seem to have entered the Greek literary canon. In the twentieth century, the imagist poet H. D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nossis has received more than 41,850 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Nossis is the 3,312th most popular writer (up from 3,822nd in 2019), the 2,885th most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,011th in 2019) and the 196th most popular Italian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nossis ranks 3,312 out of 7,302Before her are Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Salvador Espriu, Bernard-Marie Koltès, Peter Mayle, Anna Sewell, and Bernhard Grzimek. After her are Alexander Dukhnovych, Enrique Vila-Matas, Ibn Warraq, Igor Gouzenko, Ai Yazawa, and Maryana Marrash.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Nossis ranks 2,885 out of 5,161Before her are Ernest von Koerber (1850), Enzo Mari (1932), Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este (1726), Marcantonio Giustinian (1619), Gustav Thöni (1951), and Nino Cerruti (1930). After her are Francesca Bertini (1892), Lucrezia d'Este (1535), Andrea de Adamich (1941), Melus of Bari (1000), Publius Sulpicius Rufus (-124), and Valentino Fioravanti (1764).

Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Nossis ranks 196Before her are Roberto Calasso (1941), Antonio Beccadelli (1394), Giosafat Barbaro (1413), Ennio Flaiano (1910), Julius Obsequens (400), and Licinius Macer Calvus (-82). After her are Alessandro Baricco (1958), Francesco de Sanctis (1817), Corrado Alvaro (1895), Filippo Buonaccorsi (1437), Augusto Genina (1892), and Giovanni della Casa (1503).