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Longus

110 - 200

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Longus, sometimes Longos (Greek: Λόγγος), was the author of an ancient Greek novel or romance, Daphnis and Chloe. Nothing is known of his life; it is assumed that he lived on the isle of Lesbos (setting for Daphnis and Chloe) during the 2nd century AD. It has been suggested that the name Longus is merely a misinterpretation of the first word of Daphnis and Chloe's title Λεσβιακῶν ἐρωτικῶν λόγοι ("story of a Lesbian romance", "Lesbian" for "from Lesbos island") in the Florentine manuscript; EE Seiler observes that the best manuscript begins and ends with λόγου (not λόγγου) ποιμενικῶν. If his name was really Longus, he was possibly a freedman of some Roman family which bore that name as a cognomen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Longus is the 676th most popular writer (up from 723rd in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from Greece (up from 175th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Greek Writer.

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Among writers, Longus ranks 676 out of 7,302. Before him are A. A. Milne, Magtymguly Pyragy, Premchand, Leo Africanus, Max Frisch, and Bernard Gui. After him are Faxian, Jaroslav Seifert, Zecharia Sitchin, Olga Tokarczuk, Gerald Gardner, and Pietro Metastasio.

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Among people born in 110, Longus ranks 3. Before him are Pausanias, and Saint Apollonia. After him are Justin, Marcus Minucius Felix, Babrius, Hegesippus, and Cleomedes. Among people deceased in 200, Longus ranks 4. Before him are Lucian, Juvenal, and Sun Ce. After him are Justin, Artemidorus, Emperor Chūai, Lucius Artorius Castus, Vologases III of Parthia, Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Soranus of Ephesus, and Babrius.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Longus ranks 173 out of 1,024. Before him are Spyridon Louis (1873), Epimenides (-690), Speusippus (-407), Caranus of Macedon (-900), Aeschines (-389), and Craterus (-370). After him are Tyrtaeus (-700), Hippocrates of Chios (-470), Porphyry of Gaza (347), Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark (1870), Chilon of Sparta (-600), and Antigonus II Gonatas (-319).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Longus ranks 19. Before him are Simonides of Ceos (-556), Demetrius Vikelas (1835), Phaedrus (-20), Lysias (-445), Nâzım Hikmet (1902), and Hellanicus of Lesbos (-490). After him are Tyrtaeus (-700), Odysseas Elytis (1911), Jerry Falwell (1933), Aristarchus of Samothrace (-217), Agathias (536), and Aelia Eudocia (401).

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