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Apuleius

125 - 170

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Apuleius ( APP-yuu-LEE-əs), also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis (c. 124 – after 170), was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He was born in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern-day M'Daourouch, Algeria. He studied Platonism in Athens, travelled to Italy, Asia Minor, and Egypt, and was an initiate in several cults or mysteries. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Apuleius is the 128th most popular writer (down from 111th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Algeria (down from 3rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Algerian Writer.

Apuleius is most famous for writing the novel The Golden Ass, which tells the story of a man who is turned into an ass and then transformed back into a human.

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Among writers, Apuleius ranks 128 out of 7,302. Before him are Federico García Lorca, Muhammad Iqbal, Ivo Andrić, Naguib Mahfouz, Jane Austen, and Ammianus Marcellinus. After him are Sully Prudhomme, Jean de La Fontaine, Ezra Pound, François Villon, Günter Grass, and Haruki Murakami.

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Among people born in 125, Apuleius ranks 1. After him are Faustina the Younger, and Polycrates of Ephesus. Among people deceased in 170, Apuleius ranks 2. Before him is Ptolemy. After him are Salvius Julianus, Junius Rusticus, and Alexander of Abonoteichus.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Apuleius ranks 4 out of 213. Before him are Augustine of Hippo (354), Albert Camus (1913), and Macrinus (164). After him are Tariq ibn Ziyad (670), Jacques Derrida (1930), Yves Saint Laurent (1936), Jugurtha (-160), Saint Monica (332), Louis Althusser (1918), Édouard-Henri Avril (1849), and Ahmed Ben Bella (1916).

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Among WRITERS In Algeria

Among writers born in Algeria, Apuleius ranks 2. Before him are Albert Camus (1913). After him are Hélène Cixous (1937), Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948), Assia Djebar (1936), Marcus Minucius Felix (110), Robert Merle (1908), Boualem Sansal (1949), Kateb Yacine (1929), Al-Busiri (1213), Isaac Alfasi (1013), and Mohammed Dib (1920).

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