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Hero of Alexandria
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Hero of Alexandria

Mathematician and engineer

Born c. AD 10 · died c. AD 75
Also known as Hero

Who was alive at the same time as Hero of Alexandria?

  1. Strabo, c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  2. Augustus, 63 BC – AD 14
  3. Livy, BC – AD 17
  4. Ovid, 43 BC – AD 17
  5. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37
  6. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  7. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  8. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  9. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  10. Hero of Alexandria, c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  11. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  12. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  13. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  14. Caligula, AD 12 – AD 41
  15. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  16. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  17. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  18. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  19. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  20. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  21. Domitian, AD 51 – AD 96
  22. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  23. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117
  24. Pliny the Younger, c. AD 61 – c. AD 113

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Born during Hero of Alexandria’s lifetime: Plutarch, Tacitus, Nero, Pliny the Elder, Epictetus, Trajan, Titus and Pliny the Younger.

Not quite contemporaries: Horace died about 14 years before Hero of Alexandria was born, Antoninus Pius was born about 9 years after Hero of Alexandria died, Herod the Great died about 8 years before Hero of Alexandria was born and Zhang Heng was born months after Hero of Alexandria died.

What happened in Hero of Alexandria’s lifetime

Where Hero of Alexandria’s contemporaries were born

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The 74 best-known contemporaries

74 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Hero of Alexandria. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 42.

  1. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  2. Ovid 43 BC – AD 17
  3. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  4. Plutarch c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  5. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  6. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  7. Nero AD 37 – AD 68
  8. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  9. Livy BC – AD 17
  10. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  11. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  12. Epictetus c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  13. Strabo c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  14. Trajan AD 53 – c. AD 117
  15. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  16. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  17. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  18. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  19. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  20. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  21. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  22. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  23. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  24. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  25. Martial c. AD 40 – AD 104
  26. Otho AD 32 – AD 69
  27. Petronius c. AD 27 – AD 66
  28. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  29. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  30. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  31. Lucan AD 39 – AD 65
  32. Quintilian c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  33. Boudica c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  34. Arminius c. 17 BC – c. AD 21
  35. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  36. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  37. Saint Stephen c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  38. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  39. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  40. Polycarp c. AD 69 – AD 155
  41. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  42. Germanicus 15 BC – AD 19
  43. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  44. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  45. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  46. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  47. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  48. Livia BC – AD 29
  49. Velleius Paterculus c. 19 BC – c. AD 31
  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. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  54. Wang Mang c. 45 BC – AD 23
  55. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  56. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  57. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  58. Juba II BC – AD 23
  59. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  60. Gaius Julius Hyginus c. 64 BC – AD 17
  61. Agrippina the Elder BC – AD 33
  62. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  63. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  64. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  65. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  66. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  67. Herod Archelaus BC – c. AD 17
  68. Sejanus 20 BC – AD 31
  69. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  70. Julia the Elder 39 BC – AD 14
  71. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  72. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  73. Claudia Octavia c. AD 40 – AD 62
  74. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120