Who Was Alive
Antinous
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Antinous

Roman favourite

Born c. AD 111 · died October AD 130
Also known as Antinoös, Antinoos, Antinoüs

Who was alive at the same time as Antinous?

  1. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  2. Pope Sixtus I, c. AD 42 – 120s
  3. Cai Lun, c. AD 55 – AD 121
  4. Rabbi Akiva, c. AD 50 – AD 135
  5. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  6. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  7. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117
  8. Polycarp, c. AD 69 – AD 155
  9. Hadrian, AD 76 – AD 138
  10. Zhang Heng, AD 78 – AD 139
  11. Kanishka, AD 78 – AD 144
  12. Aśvaghoṣa, AD 80 – AD 150
  13. Marcion of Sinope, c. AD 90 – c. AD 160
  14. Antoninus Pius, AD 86 – AD 161
  15. Arrian, c. AD 91 – c. AD 176
  16. Appian, c. AD 95 – c. AD 165
  17. Ptolemy, c. AD 100 – c. AD 170
  18. Justin Martyr, c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  19. Pausanias, c. AD 113 – c. AD 180
  20. Antinous, c. AD 111 – AD 130
  21. Lucian, c. AD 120 – c. AD 180
  22. Tatian, c. AD 120 – c. AD 173
  23. Marcus Aurelius, AD 121 – AD 180
  24. Pertinax, AD 126 – AD 193

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When Antinous died, Marcus Aurelius was 9, Hadrian was 54, Antoninus Pius was 44, Pertinax was 4 and Zhang Heng was 51 or 52.

Born during Antinous’s lifetime: Marcus Aurelius, Lucian, Pertinax and Tatian.

Not quite contemporaries: Domitian died about 12 years before Antinous was born, Josephus died about 6 years before Antinous was born, Pope Anacletus died about 9 years before Antinous was born and Martial died about 4 years before Antinous was born.

Where Antinous’s contemporaries were born

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Birthplaces as a list

Compare Antinous

The 29 best-known contemporaries

29 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Antinous. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 122.

  1. Marcus Aurelius AD 121 – AD 180
  2. Plutarch c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  3. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  4. Ptolemy c. AD 100 – c. AD 170
  5. Epictetus c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  6. Trajan AD 53 – c. AD 117
  7. Hadrian AD 76 – AD 138
  8. Lucian c. AD 120 – c. AD 180
  9. Antoninus Pius AD 86 – AD 161
  10. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  11. Pertinax AD 126 – AD 193
  12. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  13. Justin Martyr c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  14. Zhang Heng AD 78 – AD 139
  15. Appian c. AD 95 – c. AD 165
  16. Arrian c. AD 91 – c. AD 176
  17. Pausanias c. AD 113 – c. AD 180
  18. Polycarp c. AD 69 – AD 155
  19. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  20. Kanishka AD 78 – AD 144
  21. Marcion of Sinope c. AD 90 – c. AD 160
  22. Tatian c. AD 120 – c. AD 173
  23. Aśvaghoṣa AD 80 – AD 150
  24. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  25. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  26. Florus c. AD 72 – c. AD 140
  27. Marcus Cornelius Fronto c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  28. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120
  29. Herodes Atticus c. AD 101 – AD 177