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Dioscorides
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Dioscorides

Roman physician and pharmacologist

Born AD 24–40 · died c. AD 90
Also known as Pedanius Dioscorides

Who was alive at the same time as Dioscorides?

  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. Caligula, AD 12 – AD 41
  9. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  10. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  11. Dioscorides, c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  12. Otho, AD 32 – AD 69
  13. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  14. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  15. Martial, c. AD 40 – AD 104
  16. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  17. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  18. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  19. Domitian, AD 51 – AD 96
  20. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  21. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117
  22. Pliny the Younger, c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  23. Hadrian, AD 76 – AD 138
  24. Antoninus Pius, AD 86 – AD 161

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Born during Dioscorides’s lifetime: Tacitus, Epictetus, Trajan, Hadrian, Pliny the Younger, Domitian, Antoninus Pius and Cai Lun.

Not quite contemporaries: Augustus died about 10 years before Dioscorides was born, Ovid died about 7 years before Dioscorides was born, Ptolemy was born about 5 years after Dioscorides died and Livy died about 7 years before Dioscorides was born.

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Where Dioscorides’s contemporaries were born

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The 62 best-known contemporaries

62 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Dioscorides. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 64.

  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. Nero AD 37 – AD 68
  6. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  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. Zhang Heng AD 78 – AD 139
  36. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  37. Polycarp c. AD 69 – AD 155
  38. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  39. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  40. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  41. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  42. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  43. Persius AD 34 – AD 62
  44. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  45. Kanishka AD 78 – AD 144
  46. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  47. Aśvaghoṣa AD 80 – AD 150
  48. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  49. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  50. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  51. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  52. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  53. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  54. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  55. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  56. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  57. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  58. Florus c. AD 72 – c. AD 140
  59. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  60. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  61. Claudia Octavia c. AD 40 – AD 62
  62. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120