Who Was Alive
Aśvaghoṣa
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Aśvaghoṣa

Poet

Born AD 80 · died AD 150, aged 69 or 70
Also known as Horse-Voice, Ashvaghosha

Who was alive at the same time as Aśvaghoṣa?

  1. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  2. Nerva, AD 30 – AD 98
  3. Ignatius of Antioch, c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  4. Quintilian, c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  5. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  6. Martial, c. AD 40 – AD 104
  7. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  8. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  9. Pope Sixtus I, c. AD 42 – 120s
  10. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  11. Domitian, AD 51 – AD 96
  12. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  13. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117
  14. Pliny the Younger, c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  15. Hadrian, AD 76 – AD 138
  16. Aśvaghoṣa, AD 80 – AD 150
  17. Antoninus Pius, AD 86 – AD 161
  18. Ptolemy, c. AD 100 – c. AD 170
  19. Lucian, c. AD 120 – c. AD 180
  20. Marcus Aurelius, AD 121 – AD 180
  21. Pertinax, AD 126 – AD 193
  22. Irenaeus, c. AD 130 – c. AD 202
  23. Didius Julianus, AD 133 – AD 193
  24. Septimius Severus, AD 146 – AD 211

Drag across the timeline, or use the arrow keys, to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Dashed lines mark world events. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Aśvaghoṣa was born, Trajan was 26 or 27, Hadrian was 3 or 4, Titus was 40 or 41, Domitian was 28 or 29 and Nerva was 49 or 50.

When Aśvaghoṣa died, Marcus Aurelius was 28 or 29, Antoninus Pius was 63 or 64, Septimius Severus was 3 or 4, Pertinax was 23 or 24 and Lucius Verus was 19 or 20.

Born during Aśvaghoṣa’s lifetime: Marcus Aurelius, Ptolemy, Lucian, Antoninus Pius, Septimius Severus, Didius Julianus, Pertinax and Irenaeus.

Not quite contemporaries: Paul the Apostle died about 13 years before Aśvaghoṣa was born, Saint Peter died about 12 years before Aśvaghoṣa was born, Nero died about 12 years before Aśvaghoṣa was born and Pliny the Elder died about a year before Aśvaghoṣa was born.

Where Aśvaghoṣa’s contemporaries were born

Aśvaghoṣa is labelled; the others are the best-known people we track who lived at the same time. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (55 of 59 placed); tap one to open that person.
Birthplaces as a list

Compare Aśvaghoṣa

The 58 best-known contemporaries

58 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Aśvaghoṣa. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 115.

  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. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  10. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  11. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  12. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  13. Antoninus Pius AD 86 – AD 161
  14. Septimius Severus AD 146 – AD 211
  15. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  16. Martial c. AD 40 – AD 104
  17. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  18. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  19. Quintilian c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  20. Didius Julianus AD 133 – AD 193
  21. Pertinax AD 126 – AD 193
  22. Irenaeus c. AD 130 – c. AD 202
  23. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  24. Lucius Verus AD 130 – AD 169
  25. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  26. Justin Martyr c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  27. Zhang Heng AD 78 – AD 139
  28. Appian c. AD 95 – c. AD 165
  29. Arrian c. AD 91 – c. AD 176
  30. Pausanias c. AD 113 – c. AD 180
  31. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  32. Polycarp c. AD 69 – AD 155
  33. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  34. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  35. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  36. Aulus Gellius c. AD 130 – c. AD 180
  37. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  38. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  39. Kanishka AD 78 – AD 144
  40. Marcion of Sinope c. AD 90 – c. AD 160
  41. Tatian c. AD 120 – c. AD 173
  42. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  43. Antinous c. AD 111 – AD 130
  44. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  45. Gaius c. 120s – c. AD 180
  46. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  47. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  48. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  49. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  50. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  51. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  52. Papinian AD 142 – c. AD 212
  53. Florus c. AD 72 – c. AD 140
  54. Marcus Cornelius Fronto c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  55. Vologases V AD 130 – AD 208
  56. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  57. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120
  58. Herodes Atticus c. AD 101 – AD 177