Who Was Alive

Cato the Elder

Roman politician, soldier and writer

Born c. 234 BC · died 149 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Cato the Elder?

  1. Archimedes
  2. Eratosthenes
  3. Qin Shi Huang
  4. Plautus
  5. Hannibal
  6. Cato the Elder
  7. Polybius
  8. Terence
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

Born during Cato the Elder’s lifetime: Terence and Polybius.

Not quite contemporaries: Sima Qian was born 3 years after Cato the Elder died.

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