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Dio Chrysostom
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Dio Chrysostom

Roman orator and writer

Born c. AD 40 · died c. AD 120
Also known as Dio of Prusa

Who was alive at the same time as Dio Chrysostom?

  1. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  2. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  3. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  4. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  5. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  6. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  7. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  8. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  9. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  10. Otho, AD 32 – AD 69
  11. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  12. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  13. Dio Chrysostom, c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  14. Martial, c. AD 40 – AD 104
  15. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  16. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  17. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  18. Domitian, AD 51 – AD 96
  19. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  20. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117
  21. Pliny the Younger, c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  22. Hadrian, AD 76 – AD 138
  23. Antoninus Pius, AD 86 – AD 161
  24. Ptolemy, c. AD 100 – c. AD 170

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Born during Dio Chrysostom’s lifetime: Tacitus, Ptolemy, Epictetus, Trajan, Hadrian, Pliny the Younger, Domitian and Antoninus Pius.

Not quite contemporaries: Tiberius died months before Dio Chrysostom was born, Strabo died about 13 years before Dio Chrysostom was born, Didius Julianus was born about 10 years after Dio Chrysostom died and Pertinax was born about 4 years after Dio Chrysostom died.

What happened in Dio Chrysostom’s lifetime

Where Dio Chrysostom’s contemporaries were born

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The 70 best-known contemporaries

70 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Dio Chrysostom. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 80.

  1. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  2. Plutarch c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  3. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  4. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  5. Ptolemy c. AD 100 – c. AD 170
  6. Nero AD 37 – AD 68
  7. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  8. Epictetus c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  9. Trajan AD 53 – c. AD 117
  10. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  11. Hadrian AD 76 – AD 138
  12. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  13. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  14. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  15. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  16. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  17. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  18. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  19. Antoninus Pius AD 86 – AD 161
  20. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  21. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  22. Martial c. AD 40 – AD 104
  23. Otho AD 32 – AD 69
  24. Petronius c. AD 27 – AD 66
  25. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  26. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  27. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  28. Lucan AD 39 – AD 65
  29. Quintilian c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  30. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  31. Boudica c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  32. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  33. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  34. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  35. Justin Martyr c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  36. Zhang Heng AD 78 – AD 139
  37. Appian c. AD 95 – c. AD 165
  38. Arrian c. AD 91 – c. AD 176
  39. Pausanias c. AD 113 – c. AD 180
  40. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  41. Polycarp c. AD 69 – AD 155
  42. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  43. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  44. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  45. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  46. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  47. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  48. Persius AD 34 – AD 62
  49. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  50. Kanishka AD 78 – AD 144
  51. Marcion of Sinope c. AD 90 – c. AD 160
  52. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  53. Aśvaghoṣa AD 80 – AD 150
  54. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  55. Antinous c. AD 111 – AD 130
  56. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  57. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  58. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  59. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  60. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  61. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  62. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  63. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  64. Florus c. AD 72 – c. AD 140
  65. Marcus Cornelius Fronto c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  66. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  67. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  68. Claudia Octavia c. AD 40 – AD 62
  69. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120
  70. Herodes Atticus c. AD 101 – AD 177