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Herod Archelaus
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Herod Archelaus

Ruler

Born 23 BC · died AD 15–18
Also known as Archelaus

Who was alive at the same time as Herod Archelaus?

  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. Augustus, 63 BC – AD 14
  7. Livy, BC – AD 17
  8. Saint Anne, c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  9. Propertius, c. 47 – BC
  10. Ovid, 43 BC – AD 17
  11. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37
  12. Herod Archelaus, BC – c. AD 17
  13. Arminius, c. 17 BC – c. AD 21
  14. Philo, c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  15. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  16. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  17. Saint Stephen, c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  18. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  19. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  20. Hero of Alexandria, c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  21. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  22. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  23. Caligula, AD 12 – AD 41
  24. Vitellius, AD 15 – AD 69

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When Herod Archelaus was born, Virgil was 46 or 47, Augustus was 39 or 40, Ovid was 19 or 20, Horace was 41 or 42 and Tiberius was 18 or 19.

Born during Herod Archelaus’s lifetime: Paul the Apostle, Saint Peter, Caligula, Vespasian, Claudius, Pope Linus, Galba and Vitellius.

Not quite contemporaries: Cleopatra died about 7 years before Herod Archelaus was born, Pliny the Elder was born about a year after Herod Archelaus died, Mark Antony died about 7 years before Herod Archelaus was born and Pope Anacletus was born about 4 years after Herod Archelaus died.

Where Herod Archelaus’s contemporaries were born

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The 46 best-known contemporaries

46 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Herod Archelaus. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 4 BC.

  1. Virgil 70–19 BC
  2. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  3. Ovid 43 BC – AD 17
  4. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  5. Horace 65–8 BC
  6. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  7. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  8. Livy BC – AD 17
  9. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  10. Strabo c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  11. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  12. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  13. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  14. Vitruvius c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  15. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  16. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  17. Herod the Great c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  18. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  19. Arminius c. 17 BC – c. AD 21
  20. Saint Anne c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  21. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  22. Saint Stephen c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  23. Propertius c. 47 – BC
  24. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa BC–BC
  25. Dionysius of Halicarnassus c. 60 – BC
  26. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  27. Germanicus 15 BC – AD 19
  28. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  29. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  30. Livia BC – AD 29
  31. Velleius Paterculus c. 19 BC – c. AD 31
  32. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  33. Lepidus c. 90 – BC
  34. Wang Mang c. 45 BC – AD 23
  35. Nero Claudius Drusus 38–9 BC
  36. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  37. Juba II BC – AD 23
  38. Cleopatra Selene II 40–BC
  39. Gaius Julius Hyginus c. 64 BC – AD 17
  40. Agrippina the Elder BC – AD 33
  41. Gaius Caesar BC – AD 4
  42. Aenesidemus c. 80 – c. 10 BC
  43. Nicolaus of Damascus BC – AD 4
  44. Dongmyeong of Goguryeo BC–BC
  45. Sejanus 20 BC – AD 31
  46. Julia the Elder 39 BC – AD 14