Who Was Alive

Epictetus

Greek Stoic philosopher

Born c. AD 50 · died AD 125–138

Who was alive at the same time as Epictetus?

  1. Claudius
  2. Galba
  3. Saint Peter
  4. Paul the Apostle
  5. Vespasian
  6. Mark the Evangelist
  7. Linus
  8. Pliny the Elder
  9. Anacletus
  10. Josephus
  11. Nero
  12. Martial
  13. Titus
  14. Plutarch
  15. Epictetus
  16. Domitian
  17. Tacitus
  18. Trajan
  19. Pliny the Younger
  20. Hadrian
  21. Antoninus Pius
  22. Ptolemy
  23. Lucian of Samosata
  24. Marcus Aurelius
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 Epictetus’s lifetime: Marcus Aurelius, Ptolemy, Trajan, Hadrian, Lucian of Samosata, Pliny the Younger and Antoninus Pius.

Not quite contemporaries: Caligula died 7 years before Epictetus was born, Nagarjuna was born 9 years after Epictetus died, Tiberius died 11 years before Epictetus was born and Septimius Severus was born 8 years after Epictetus died.

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