Plautus · Hannibal Were Plautus and Hannibal alive at the same time? Yes. Plautus and Hannibal were alive at the same time, from 247 BC to 184 BC. PlautusRoman comic playwrightBorn 250 BC · died 184 BCHannibalCarthaginian generalBorn 247 BC · died 183 BC, aged 63 or 64 AshokaArchimedesEratosthenesQin Shi HuangPlautusHannibal Plautus and Hannibal in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.