Who Was Alive

Ovid

Roman poet (43 BC – 17/18 AD)

Born 20 March 43 BC · died AD 17, aged 58 or 59

Who was alive at the same time as Ovid?

  1. Cicero
  2. Mark Antony
  3. Vitruvius
  4. Cleopatra
  5. Virgil
  6. Strabo
  7. Horace
  8. Augustus
  9. Titus Livius
  10. Ovid
  11. Tiberius
  12. Claudius
  13. Galba
  14. Saint Peter
  15. Paul the Apostle
  16. Vespasian
  17. Linus
  18. Caligula
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 Ovid was born, Virgil was 26, Augustus was 19, Cicero was 63, Horace was 21 and Titus Livius was 15 or 16.

When Ovid died, Saint Peter was 16 or 17, Caligula was 4 or 5, Tiberius was 57 or 58, Vespasian was 7 or 8 and Claudius was 25 or 26.

Born during Ovid’s lifetime: Paul the Apostle, Saint Peter, Caligula, Tiberius, Vespasian, Claudius, Linus and Galba.

Not quite contemporaries: Julius Caesar died about a year before Ovid was born, Pliny the Elder was born 2 years after Ovid died, Lucretius died 12 years before Ovid was born and Catullus died 9 years before Ovid was born.

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