Who Was Alive

Josephus

Roman–Jewish historian and military leader

Born AD 37 · died c. AD 100

Who was alive at the same time as Josephus?

  1. Claudius
  2. Galba
  3. Saint Peter
  4. Paul the Apostle
  5. Vespasian
  6. Mark the Evangelist
  7. Linus
  8. Caligula
  9. Pliny the Elder
  10. Anacletus
  11. Josephus
  12. Nero
  13. Martial
  14. Titus
  15. Plutarch
  16. Epictetus
  17. Domitian
  18. Tacitus
  19. Trajan
  20. Pliny the Younger
  21. Hadrian
  22. Antoninus Pius
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.

When Josephus was born, Saint Peter was 36 or 37, Caligula was 24 or 25, Vespasian was 27 or 28, Claudius was 45 or 46 and Linus was 26 or 27.

Born during Josephus’s lifetime: Plutarch, Tacitus, Epictetus, Trajan, Hadrian, Titus, Pliny the Younger and Domitian.

Not quite contemporaries: Strabo died 12 years before Josephus was born and Lucian of Samosata was born 15 years after Josephus died.

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