Who Was Alive

Cicero

Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher

Born 3 January 106 BC · died 7 December 43 BC, aged 63

Who was alive at the same time as Cicero?

  1. Sima Qian
  2. Cicero
  3. Pompey
  4. Spartacus
  5. Julius Caesar
  6. Lucretius
  7. Catullus
  8. Mark Antony
  9. Vitruvius
  10. Cleopatra
  11. Virgil
  12. Strabo
  13. Horace
  14. Augustus
  15. Titus Livius
  16. Ovid
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 Cicero died, Virgil was 27, Augustus was 20, Ovid was under a year old, Horace was 21 and Titus Livius was 15 or 16.

Born during Cicero’s lifetime: Julius Caesar, Virgil, Augustus, Ovid, Cleopatra, Horace, Titus Livius and Lucretius.

Not quite contemporaries: Tiberius was born about a year after Cicero died and Polybius died 11 years before Cicero was born.

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