Who Was Alive

Lucian of Samosata

2nd-century Syrian satirist and rhetorician

Born c. AD 120 · died c. AD 180

Who was alive at the same time as Lucian of Samosata?

  1. Epictetus
  2. Hadrian
  3. Antoninus Pius
  4. Ptolemy
  5. Lucian of Samosata
  6. Marcus Aurelius
  7. Septimius Severus
  8. Nagarjuna
  9. Tertullian
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Born during Lucian of Samosata’s lifetime: Nagarjuna, Tertullian and Septimius Severus.

Not quite contemporaries: Pliny the Younger died 3 years before Lucian of Samosata was born, Josephus died 15 years before Lucian of Samosata was born and Martial died 13 years before Lucian of Samosata was born.

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