Who Was Alive
Gaius Caesar
Giovanni Dall'Orto, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons

Gaius Caesar

Roman soldier

Born 20 BC · died 21 February AD 4, aged 22 or 23
Also known as Gaius Julius Caesar Vipsanianus, Gaius Julius Caesar, Gaius Iulius Caesar Vipsanianus

Who was alive at the same time as Gaius Caesar?

  1. Vitruvius, c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  2. Herod the Great, c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  3. Virgil, 70–19 BC
  4. Strabo, c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  5. Horace, 65–8 BC
  6. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, BC–BC
  7. Augustus, 63 BC – AD 14
  8. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, c. 60 – BC
  9. Livy, BC – AD 17
  10. Livia, BC – AD 29
  11. Saint Anne, c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  12. Seneca the Elder, c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  13. Propertius, c. 47 – BC
  14. Ovid, 43 BC – AD 17
  15. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37
  16. Velleius Paterculus, c. 19 BC – c. AD 31
  17. Gaius Caesar, BC – AD 4
  18. Arminius, c. 17 BC – c. AD 21
  19. Philo, c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  20. Germanicus, 15 BC – AD 19
  21. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  22. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  23. Saint Stephen, c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  24. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66

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When Gaius Caesar was born, Virgil was 49 or 50, Augustus was 42 or 43, Ovid was 22 or 23, Horace was 44 or 45 and Livy was 38 or 39.

When Gaius Caesar died, Augustus was 65, Ovid was 45, Saint Peter was 3 or 4, Livy was 61 or 62 and Tiberius was 44.

Born during Gaius Caesar’s lifetime: Saint Peter, Claudius, Galba, Arminius, Philo, Saint Stephen, Germanicus and Herod Agrippa.

Not quite contemporaries: Cleopatra died about 9 years before Gaius Caesar was born, Caligula was born about 8 years after Gaius Caesar died, Vespasian was born about 5 years after Gaius Caesar died and Mark Antony died about 9 years before Gaius Caesar was born.

Where Gaius Caesar’s contemporaries were born

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The 37 best-known contemporaries

37 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Gaius Caesar. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 8 BC.

  1. Virgil 70–19 BC
  2. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  3. Ovid 43 BC – AD 17
  4. Horace 65–8 BC
  5. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  6. Livy BC – AD 17
  7. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  8. Strabo c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  9. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  10. Vitruvius c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  11. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  12. Herod the Great c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  13. Arminius c. 17 BC – c. AD 21
  14. Saint Anne c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  15. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  16. Saint Stephen c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  17. Propertius c. 47 – BC
  18. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa BC–BC
  19. Dionysius of Halicarnassus c. 60 – BC
  20. Germanicus 15 BC – AD 19
  21. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  22. Livia BC – AD 29
  23. Velleius Paterculus c. 19 BC – c. AD 31
  24. Lepidus c. 90 – BC
  25. Wang Mang c. 45 BC – AD 23
  26. Nero Claudius Drusus 38–9 BC
  27. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  28. Juba II BC – AD 23
  29. Cleopatra Selene II 40–BC
  30. Gaius Julius Hyginus c. 64 BC – AD 17
  31. Agrippina the Elder BC – AD 33
  32. Herod Archelaus BC – c. AD 17
  33. Aenesidemus c. 80 – c. 10 BC
  34. Nicolaus of Damascus BC – AD 4
  35. Dongmyeong of Goguryeo BC–BC
  36. Sejanus 20 BC – AD 31
  37. Julia the Elder 39 BC – AD 14