Who Was Alive

Pliny the Elder

Roman military commander and writer (AD23/24–79)

Born 20s · died AD 79

Who was alive at the same time as Pliny the Elder?

  1. Tiberius
  2. Claudius
  3. Galba
  4. Saint Peter
  5. Paul the Apostle
  6. Vespasian
  7. Mark the Evangelist
  8. Linus
  9. Caligula
  10. Pliny the Elder
  11. Anacletus
  12. Josephus
  13. Nero
  14. Martial
  15. Titus
  16. Plutarch
  17. Epictetus
  18. Domitian
  19. Tacitus
  20. Trajan
  21. Pliny the Younger
  22. Hadrian
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 Pliny the Elder died, Trajan was 25 or 26, Hadrian was 2 or 3, Titus was 39 or 40, Domitian was 27 or 28 and Josephus was 41 or 42.

Born during Pliny the Elder’s lifetime: Plutarch, Tacitus, Nero, Epictetus, Trajan, Hadrian, Titus and Pliny the Younger.

Not quite contemporaries: Augustus died 5 years before Pliny the Elder was born, Ovid died 2 years before Pliny the Elder was born, Titus Livius died 2 years before Pliny the Elder was born and Antoninus Pius was born 7 years after Pliny the Elder died.

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