Who Was Alive
Frontinus
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Frontinus

Roman civil engineer and writer

Born c. AD 30 · died AD 103
Also known as Sextus Julius Frontinus, Sextus Iulius Frontinus

Who was alive at the same time as Frontinus?

  1. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37
  2. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  3. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  4. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  5. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  6. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  7. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  8. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  9. Caligula, AD 12 – AD 41
  10. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  11. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  12. Frontinus, c. AD 30 – AD 103
  13. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  14. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  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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When Frontinus died, Trajan was 49 or 50, Hadrian was 26 or 27, Antoninus Pius was 16 or 17, Aśvaghoṣa was 22 or 23 and Ban Zhao was 57 or 58.

Born during Frontinus’s lifetime: Plutarch, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Nero, Epictetus, Trajan, Hadrian and Titus.

Not quite contemporaries: Augustus died about 14 years before Frontinus was born, Ovid died about 11 years before Frontinus was born, Livy died about 11 years before Frontinus was born and Strabo died about 4 years before Frontinus was born.

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Where Frontinus’s contemporaries were born

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The 73 best-known contemporaries

73 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Frontinus. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 68.

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