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Agrippina the Elder
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Agrippina the Elder

Roman politician

Born 14 BC · died 18 October AD 33, aged 45 or 46
Also known as Vipsania Agrippina, Agrippina Major, Vipsania Julia Agrippina

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

  1. Herod the Great, c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  2. Strabo, c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  3. Horace, 65–8 BC
  4. Augustus, 63 BC – AD 14
  5. Livy, BC – AD 17
  6. Ovid, 43 BC – AD 17
  7. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37
  8. Agrippina the Elder, BC – AD 33
  9. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  10. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  11. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  12. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  13. Hero of Alexandria, c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  14. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  15. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  16. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  17. Caligula, AD 12 – AD 41
  18. Vitellius, AD 15 – AD 69
  19. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  20. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  21. Petronius, c. AD 27 – AD 66
  22. Boudica, c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  23. Nerva, AD 30 – AD 98
  24. Otho, AD 32 – AD 69

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When Agrippina the Elder was born, Augustus was 48 or 49, Ovid was 28 or 29, Horace was 50 or 51, Livy was 44 or 45 and Tiberius was 27 or 28.

When Agrippina the Elder died, Saint Peter was 32 or 33, Caligula was 21, Tiberius was 73, Vespasian was 23 and Claudius was 42.

Born during Agrippina the Elder’s lifetime: Paul the Apostle, Saint Peter, Caligula, Pliny the Elder, Vespasian, Claudius, Pope Linus and Mark the Evangelist.

Not quite contemporaries: Virgil died about 4 years before Agrippina the Elder was born, Plutarch was born about 6 years after Agrippina the Elder died, Nero was born about 4 years after Agrippina the Elder died and Epictetus was born about 15 years after Agrippina the Elder died.

Where Agrippina the Elder’s contemporaries were born

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Compare Agrippina the Elder

The 59 best-known contemporaries

59 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Agrippina the Elder. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 10.

  1. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  2. Ovid 43 BC – AD 17
  3. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  4. Horace 65–8 BC
  5. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  6. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  7. Livy BC – AD 17
  8. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  9. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  10. Strabo c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  11. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  12. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  13. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  14. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  15. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  16. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  17. Otho AD 32 – AD 69
  18. Petronius c. AD 27 – AD 66
  19. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  20. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  21. Herod the Great c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  22. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  23. Boudica c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  24. Arminius c. 17 BC – c. AD 21
  25. Saint Anne c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  26. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  27. Saint Stephen c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  28. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa BC–BC
  29. Dionysius of Halicarnassus c. 60 – BC
  30. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  31. Germanicus 15 BC – AD 19
  32. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  33. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  34. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  35. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  36. Livia BC – AD 29
  37. Velleius Paterculus c. 19 BC – c. AD 31
  38. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  39. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  40. Lepidus c. 90 – BC
  41. Wang Mang c. 45 BC – AD 23
  42. Nero Claudius Drusus 38–9 BC
  43. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  44. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  45. Juba II BC – AD 23
  46. Cleopatra Selene II 40–BC
  47. Gaius Julius Hyginus c. 64 BC – AD 17
  48. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  49. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  50. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  51. Herod Archelaus BC – c. AD 17
  52. Gaius Caesar BC – AD 4
  53. Aenesidemus c. 80 – c. 10 BC
  54. Nicolaus of Damascus BC – AD 4
  55. Sejanus 20 BC – AD 31
  56. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  57. Julia the Elder 39 BC – AD 14
  58. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  59. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100