Who Was Alive

Spartacus

Thracian gladiator who led a slave uprising against the Roman Republic

Born 103 BC · died April 71 BC, aged 31 or 32

Who was alive at the same time as Spartacus?

  1. Sima Qian
  2. Cicero
  3. Pompey
  4. Spartacus
  5. Julius Caesar
  6. Lucretius
  7. Catullus
  8. Mark Antony
  9. Vitruvius
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 Spartacus was born, Cicero was 2 or 3 and Pompey was 2 or 3.

When Spartacus died, Julius Caesar was 28, Cicero was 35, Lucretius was 22 or 23, Pompey was 34 and Mark Antony was 11 or 12.

Born during Spartacus’s lifetime: Julius Caesar, Lucretius, Catullus, Mark Antony and Vitruvius.

Not quite contemporaries: Virgil was born about a year after Spartacus died, Augustus was born 8 years after Spartacus died, Horace was born 6 years after Spartacus died and Titus Livius was born 11 years after Spartacus died.

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