Who Was Alive

Ptolemy

2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer

Born c. AD 100 · died c. AD 170

Who was alive at the same time as Ptolemy?

  1. Martial
  2. Plutarch
  3. Epictetus
  4. Tacitus
  5. Trajan
  6. Pliny the Younger
  7. Hadrian
  8. Antoninus Pius
  9. Ptolemy
  10. Lucian of Samosata
  11. Marcus Aurelius
  12. Septimius Severus
  13. Nagarjuna
  14. Tertullian
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.

Born during Ptolemy’s lifetime: Marcus Aurelius, Nagarjuna, Lucian of Samosata, Tertullian and Septimius Severus.

Not quite contemporaries: Domitian died about a year before Ptolemy was born.

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