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Ovid

43 BC - 17

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Publius Ovidius Naso (Latin: [ˈpuːbliʊs ɔˈwɪdiʊs ˈnaːso(ː)]; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid ( OV-id), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ovid has received more than 3,637,748 page views. His biography is available in 133 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 129 in 2019). Ovid is the 25th most popular writer (down from 19th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Italy (down from 24th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Writer.

Ovid is most famous for his epic poem Metamorphoses, which tells the stories of how the world and its people came to be.

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  • 133

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Ibis
1667
Selections from Ovid
Latin language
1879
Remedia amoris
1636
Tristia; Ex Ponto
1892
Opera
Love poetry, Latin
1826
Metamorphoses
1479

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ovid ranks 25 out of 7,302. Before him are Molière, Anton Chekhov, Petrarch, Honoré de Balzac, Aesop, and Jean-Paul Sartre. After him are Rumi, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Giovanni Boccaccio, Denis Diderot, Agatha Christie, and Horace.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 43 BC, Ovid ranks 1. After him is Iullus Antonius. Among people deceased in 17, Ovid ranks 1. After him are Livy, Gaius Julius Hyginus, Thusnelda, Archelaus of Cappadocia, and Antiochus III of Commagene.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ovid ranks 25 out of 5,161. Before him are Virgil (-70), Francis of Assisi (1182), Nero (37), Caravaggio (1571), Petrarch (1304), and Amerigo Vespucci (1454). After him are Marcus Aurelius (121), Giovanni Boccaccio (1313), Sandro Botticelli (1445), Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (1768), Caligula (12), and Alessandro Volta (1745).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Ovid ranks 4. Before him are Dante Alighieri (1265), Virgil (-70), and Petrarch (1304). After him are Giovanni Boccaccio (1313), Horace (-65), Giacomo Casanova (1725), Umberto Eco (1932), Giorgio Vasari (1511), Guillaume Apollinaire (1880), Plautus (-254), and Cato the Elder (-243).

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