Who Was Alive

Lucretius

1st-century BC Roman poet and philosopher

Born 94 BC · died 15 October 55 BC, aged 38 or 39

Who was alive at the same time as Lucretius?

  1. Sima Qian
  2. Cicero
  3. Pompey
  4. Spartacus
  5. Julius Caesar
  6. Lucretius
  7. Catullus
  8. Mark Antony
  9. Vitruvius
  10. Cleopatra
  11. Virgil
  12. Strabo
  13. Horace
  14. Augustus
  15. Titus Livius
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 Lucretius was born, Julius Caesar was 5 or 6, Cicero was 11 or 12 and Pompey was 11 or 12.

When Lucretius died, Julius Caesar was 45, Virgil was 15, Augustus was 8, Cicero was 51 and Horace was 9.

Born during Lucretius’s lifetime: Virgil, Augustus, Cleopatra, Horace, Titus Livius, Catullus, Strabo and Mark Antony.

Not quite contemporaries: Ovid was born 12 years after Lucretius died and Tiberius was born 13 years after Lucretius died.

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