Who Was Alive

Pompey

Roman general and statesman

Born 29–30 September 106 BC · died 28 September 48 BC, aged 57 or 58

Who was alive at the same time as Pompey?

  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 Pompey was born, Cicero was under a year old.

When Pompey died, Julius Caesar was 52, Virgil was 21, Augustus was 15, Cicero was 58 and Horace was 16.

Born during Pompey’s lifetime: Julius Caesar, Virgil, Augustus, Cleopatra, Horace, Titus Livius, Lucretius and Catullus.

Not quite contemporaries: Ovid was born 5 years after Pompey died, Tiberius was born 6 years after Pompey died and Polybius died 12 years before Pompey was born.

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