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Gaius Cassius Longinus
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Gaius Cassius Longinus

Roman politician

Born c. 82 BC · died 42 BC
Also known as Cassius, Caius Cassius

Who was alive at the same time as Gaius Cassius Longinus?

  1. Sulla, 138–BC
  2. Marcus Terentius Varro, 116–BC
  3. Marcus Licinius Crassus, 115–53 BC
  4. Cicero, 106–43 BC
  5. Pompey, 106–48 BC
  6. Spartacus, 103–71 BC
  7. Julius Caesar, 100–44 BC
  8. Lucretius, BC–55 BC
  9. Diodorus Siculus, c. 90 – c. 20 BC
  10. Marcus Junius Brutus, c. 85 – 42 BC
  11. Catullus, c. 84 – c. 54 BC
  12. Sallust, 86–35 BC
  13. Gaius Cassius Longinus, c. 82 – BC
  14. Mark Antony, BC–BC
  15. Vitruvius, c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  16. Herod the Great, c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  17. Cleopatra, c. 69 – 30 BC
  18. Virgil, 70–19 BC
  19. Strabo, c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  20. Horace, 65–8 BC
  21. Augustus, 63 BC – AD 14
  22. Livy, BC – AD 17
  23. Saint Anne, c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  24. Ovid, 43 BC – AD 17

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When Gaius Cassius Longinus died, Virgil was 27 or 28, Augustus was 20 or 21, Ovid was about a year old, Horace was 22 or 23 and Mark Antony was 40 or 41.

Born during Gaius Cassius Longinus’s lifetime: Virgil, Augustus, Ovid, Cleopatra, Horace, Livy, Strabo and Herod the Great.

Not quite contemporaries: Sima Qian died about a year before Gaius Cassius Longinus was born, Gaius Marius died about a year before Gaius Cassius Longinus was born, Emperor Wu of Han died about 2 years before Gaius Cassius Longinus was born and Nero Claudius Drusus was born about 4 years after Gaius Cassius Longinus died.

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The 47 best-known contemporaries

47 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Gaius Cassius Longinus. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 61 BC.

  1. Julius Caesar 100–44 BC
  2. Virgil 70–19 BC
  3. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  4. Cicero 106–43 BC
  5. Ovid 43 BC – AD 17
  6. Cleopatra c. 69 – 30 BC
  7. Horace 65–8 BC
  8. Livy BC – AD 17
  9. Lucretius BC–55 BC
  10. Catullus c. 84 – c. 54 BC
  11. Strabo c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  12. Pompey 106–48 BC
  13. Mark Antony BC–BC
  14. Vitruvius c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  15. Spartacus 103–71 BC
  16. Diodorus Siculus c. 90 – c. 20 BC
  17. Sallust 86–35 BC
  18. Herod the Great c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  19. Sulla 138–BC
  20. Marcus Junius Brutus c. 85 – 42 BC
  21. Marcus Terentius Varro 116–BC
  22. Marcus Licinius Crassus 115–53 BC
  23. Saint Anne c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  24. Tigranes the Great 140–BC
  25. Propertius c. 47 – BC
  26. Vercingetorix c. 80 – BC
  27. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa BC–BC
  28. Mithridates VI Eupator c. 133 – BC
  29. Dionysius of Halicarnassus c. 60 – BC
  30. Cato the Younger BC–BC
  31. Cornelius Nepos c. 100 – c. 25 BC
  32. Caesarion 47–30 BC
  33. Posidonius 135–BC
  34. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  35. Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator BC–47 BC
  36. Catiline 108–62 BC
  37. Livia BC – AD 29
  38. Ptolemy XII Auletes 117–BC
  39. Lepidus c. 90 – BC
  40. Wang Mang c. 45 BC – AD 23
  41. Juba II BC – AD 23
  42. Gaius Julius Hyginus c. 64 BC – AD 17
  43. Lucullus c. 117 – c. 57 BC
  44. Aenesidemus c. 80 – c. 10 BC
  45. Nicolaus of Damascus BC – AD 4
  46. Dongmyeong of Goguryeo BC–BC
  47. Alexander Jannaeus c. 127 – BC