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Phaedrus

20 BC - 50

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Gaius Julius Phaedrus (; Ancient Greek: Φαῖδρος; Phaîdros), or Phaeder (c. 15 BC – c. 50 AD) was a 1st-century AD Roman fabulist and the first versifier of a collection of Aesop's fables into Latin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Phaedrus has received more than 97,593 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Phaedrus is the 430th most popular writer (down from 424th in 2019), the 113th most popular biography from Greece (up from 124th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Greek Writer.

Memorability Metrics

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Fabulae
1673
Phaedri Augusti liberti Fabulae Aesopiae
1868
Fabularum Aesopiarum
1698
The Comedies Of Terence And The Fables Of Phaedrus
2007
Liber fabularum.
1969
Les fables antiques de la broderie de Bayeux / [par] Léon Herrmann
Bayeux tapestry
1964
Fabulae Aesopiae
Fables
1667
Fabularum Aesopiarum
Fables
1698
Fabulae
Aphorisms and apothegms, Dialects, Early works to 1800
1673
Fabulistes Latins Depuis le Siécle d'auguste Jusqu'à la Fin du Moyen Âge; Volume 1
2018
Aesop's fables
1701
FABELN
Latin Fables, Translations into German
2011

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Phaedrus ranks 430 out of 7,302. Before him are Seneca the Elder, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Nadine Gordimer, Vladimir Vysotsky, Philip Roth, and William of Rubruck. After him are Andrzej Sapkowski, Frank Herbert, Hector Malot, Al-Maʿarri, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Kurt Vonnegut.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 20 BC, Phaedrus ranks 3. Before him are John the Baptist, and Herod Antipas. After him are James, brother of Jesus, Gaius Caesar, and Sejanus. Among people deceased in 50, Phaedrus ranks 2. Before him is Aulus Cornelius Celsus. After him are Abgar V, Marcus Manilius, Thaddeus of Edessa, and Papirius Fabianus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Phaedrus ranks 113 out of 1,024. Before him are Melina Mercouri (1920), Necho II (-625), Arion (-700), Polycrates (-600), Scopas (-395), and Pheidippides (-600). After him are Ictinus (-500), Pittacus of Mytilene (-650), Quintus Curtius Rufus (41), Lysias (-445), Phryne (-371), and John III Doukas Vatatzes (1192).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Phaedrus ranks 15. Before him are Nikos Kazantzakis (1883), Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620), Archilochus (-680), Nâzım Hikmet (1902), Simonides of Ceos (-556), and Arion (-700). After him are Lysias (-445), Tyrtaeus (-700), Periander (-700), Agathias (536), Longus (110), and Aelia Eudocia (401).

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