Who Was Alive

Martial

1st-century Latin poet from Hispania

Born AD 38–41 · died AD 104

Who was alive at the same time as Martial?

  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
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 Martial died, Trajan was 50 or 51, Hadrian was 27 or 28 and Antoninus Pius was 17 or 18.

Born during Martial’s lifetime: Tacitus, Ptolemy, Epictetus, Trajan, Hadrian, Pliny the Younger, Domitian and Antoninus Pius.

Not quite contemporaries: Tiberius died about a year before Martial was born, Strabo died 14 years before Martial was born and Lucian of Samosata was born 13 years after Martial died.

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