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Plautus

254 BC - 184 BC

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Titus Maccius Plautus ( PLAW-təs; c. 254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andronicus, the innovator of Latin literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Plautus is the 153rd most popular writer (down from 131st in 2019), the 223rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 146th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Italian Writer.

Plautus is most famous for his comedic plays.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Plautus ranks 153 out of 7,302. Before him are Cyrano de Bergerac, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry David Thoreau, Diogenes Laërtius, Emily Brontë, and Carlo Collodi. After him are Yasunari Kawabata, H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, and Ivan Turgenev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 254 BC, Plautus ranks 1. After him are Quintus Fabius Pictor, and Machanidas. Among people deceased in 184 BC, Plautus ranks 1. After him is Emperor Qianshao of Han.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Plautus ranks 223 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope John XIX (975), Vincenzo Bellini (1801), Gina Lollobrigida (1927), Carlo Collodi (1826), Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922), and Pope Pius I (90). After him are Giuseppe Meazza (1910), Pope John VIII (820), Giorgione (1478), Terence Hill (1939), Pope Honorius III (1148), and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Plautus ranks 12. Before him are Horace (-65), Umberto Eco (1932), Giacomo Casanova (1725), Giorgio Vasari (1511), Cato the Elder (-243), and Carlo Collodi (1826). After him are Guillaume Apollinaire (1880), Catullus (-84), Carlo Goldoni (1707), Torquato Tasso (1544), Pliny the Younger (61), and Juvenal (50).

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