Who Was Alive

Augustus

First emperor of the Roman Empire and founder of the Julio-Claudian dynasty

Born 23 September 63 BC · died 19 August AD 14, aged 75

Who was alive at the same time as Augustus?

  1. Cicero
  2. Pompey
  3. Julius Caesar
  4. Lucretius
  5. Catullus
  6. Mark Antony
  7. Vitruvius
  8. Cleopatra
  9. Virgil
  10. Strabo
  11. Horace
  12. Augustus
  13. Titus Livius
  14. Ovid
  15. Tiberius
  16. Claudius
  17. Galba
  18. Saint Peter
  19. Paul the Apostle
  20. Vespasian
  21. Linus
  22. Caligula
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 Augustus was born, Julius Caesar was 37, Virgil was 6, Cicero was 43, Horace was 1 and Lucretius was 30 or 31.

When Augustus died, Ovid was 56, Saint Peter was 13 or 14, Caligula was 1, Titus Livius was 71 or 72 and Tiberius was 54.

Born during Augustus’s lifetime: Ovid, Paul the Apostle, Saint Peter, Caligula, Titus Livius, Tiberius, Vespasian and Claudius.

Not quite contemporaries: Pliny the Elder was born 5 years after Augustus died, Spartacus died 8 years before Augustus was born and Anacletus was born 8 years after Augustus died.

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