Metamorphoses (Apuleius)

The Golden Ass - Ancient Roman novel by Apuleius. This book is the 1003^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 134^th most popular book in Latin Wikipedia. Article “Metamorphoses (Apuleius)” in Latin Wikipedia has 7.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Latin) language version.

Since the creation of article “Metamorphoses (Apuleius)”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Latin Wikipedia and edited by 792 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Golden Ass is on the 134^th place in local ranking of books in Latin Wikipedia and on the 1003^rd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 24 times in Latin Wikipedia and cited 1922 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Latin): #858 in August 2020
• Global: #15112 in May 2026

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Latin): #342 in September 2020
• Global: #48737 in June 2009

There are 33 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) The Golden Ass		64.6943
2	Catalan (ca) Les metamorfosis (Apuleu)		52.0621
3	Polish (pl) Metamorfozy (utwór Apulejusza)		50.0508
4	Bulgarian (bg) Златното магаре		49.0731
5	Italian (it) Le metamorfosi (Apuleio)		46.486
6	Serbian (sr) Златни магарац		46.008
7	French (fr) Métamorphoses (Apulée)		38.2087
8	Belarusian (be) Залаты асёл		35.8332
9	Hungarian (hu) Az aranyszamár		32.8096
10	Japanese (ja) 黄金のロバ		32.5261

More...

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Metamorphoses (Apuleius)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Golden Ass		2 451 842
2	Italian (it) Le metamorfosi (Apuleio)		1 049 731
3	Russian (ru) Метаморфозы (Апулей)		510 396
4	Spanish (es) Las metamorfosis (Apuleyo)		494 642
5	French (fr) Métamorphoses (Apulée)		454 622
6	Arabic (ar) الحمار الذهبي		214 890
7	Portuguese (pt) Metamorfoses (Apuleio)		67 350
8	Persian (fa) الاغ طلایی		45 252
9	Chinese (zh) 金驴记		45 083
10	Polish (pl) Metamorfozy (utwór Apulejusza)		41 103

More...

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Metamorphoses (Apuleius)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Golden Ass		9 832
2	Italian (it) Le metamorfosi (Apuleio)		2 432
3	French (fr) Métamorphoses (Apulée)		1 818
4	Russian (ru) Метаморфозы (Апулей)		1 525
5	Spanish (es) Las metamorfosis (Apuleyo)		1 099
6	Japanese (ja) 黄金のロバ		377
7	Portuguese (pt) Metamorfoses (Apuleio)		265
8	Persian (fa) الاغ طلایی		207
9	Chinese (zh) 金驴记		206
10	Polish (pl) Metamorfozy (utwór Apulejusza)		202

More...

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Metamorphoses (Apuleius)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Golden Ass		249
2	French (fr) Métamorphoses (Apulée)		108
3	Italian (it) Le metamorfosi (Apuleio)		98
4	Russian (ru) Метаморфозы (Апулей)		58
5	Spanish (es) Las metamorfosis (Apuleyo)		50
6	Ukrainian (uk) Метаморфози, або Золотий осел		28
7	Arabic (ar) الحمار الذهبي		26
8	Catalan (ca) Les metamorfosis (Apuleu)		20
9	Persian (fa) الاغ طلایی		17
10	Hebrew (he) חמור הזהב		15

More...

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Metamorphoses (Apuleius)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Le metamorfosi (Apuleio)		3
2	Serbian (sr) Златни магарац		3
3	Japanese (ja) 黄金のロバ		1
4	Arabic (ar) الحمار الذهبي		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Metamorfozalar (Apuleyus)		0
6	Belarusian (be) Залаты асёл		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Златното магаре		0
8	Catalan (ca) Les metamorfosis (Apuleu)		0
9	Czech (cs) Zlatý osel		0
10	Greek (el) Οι Μεταμορφώσεις ή Ο Χρυσός γάιδαρος		0

More...

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Metamorphoses (Apuleius)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Golden Ass		419
2	Italian (it) Le metamorfosi (Apuleio)		182
3	Portuguese (pt) Metamorfoses (Apuleio)		170
4	French (fr) Métamorphoses (Apulée)		148
5	Spanish (es) Las metamorfosis (Apuleyo)		126
6	Russian (ru) Метаморфозы (Апулей)		96
7	Chinese (zh) 金驴记		85
8	Persian (fa) الاغ طلایی		79
9	Arabic (ar) الحمار الذهبي		77
10	Basque (eu) Urrezko astoa		70

More...

#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الحمار الذهبي
az	Azerbaijani Metamorfozalar (Apuleyus)
be	Belarusian Залаты асёл
bg	Bulgarian Златното магаре
ca	Catalan Les metamorfosis (Apuleu)
cs	Czech Zlatý osel
el	Greek Οι Μεταμορφώσεις ή Ο Χρυσός γάιδαρος
en	English The Golden Ass
eo	Esperanto La ora azeno
es	Spanish Las metamorfosis (Apuleyo)
eu	Basque Urrezko astoa
fa	Persian الاغ طلایی
fi	Finnish Kultainen aasi
fr	French Métamorphoses (Apulée)
gl	Galician O asno de ouro
he	Hebrew חמור הזהב
hu	Hungarian Az aranyszamár
id	Indonesian Keledai Emas
it	Italian Le metamorfosi (Apuleio)
ja	Japanese 黄金のロバ
ko	Korean 황금 당나귀
la	Latin Metamorphoses (Apuleius)
nl	Dutch De Gouden Ezel
no	Norwegian Det gyldne esel
pl	Polish Metamorfozy (utwór Apulejusza)
pt	Portuguese Metamorfoses (Apuleio)
ru	Russian Метаморфозы (Апулей)
simple	Simple English The Golden Ass
sr	Serbian Златни магарац
tr	Turkish Altın Eşek
uk	Ukrainian Метаморфози, або Золотий осел
ur	Urdu دی گولڈن ایس
zh	Chinese 金驴记

Best Rank

Latin: #342 09.2020

Global: #48737 06.2009

Best Rank

Latin: #858 08.2020

Global: #15112 05.2026

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Latin Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Palladium, Glans (telum), Abdelazizus Būtaflīqa, 613, 80, 85, 50, Puerto de la Cruz, Discrimen tertii saeculi, Iolanda (regina Aragoniae).

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information