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Herodes Atticus
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Herodes Atticus

Roman rhetorician

Born AD 101–102 · died AD 177

Who was alive at the same time as Herodes Atticus?

  1. Ignatius of Antioch, c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  2. Martial, c. AD 40 – AD 104
  3. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  4. Pope Sixtus I, c. AD 42 – 120s
  5. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  6. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  7. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117
  8. Pliny the Younger, c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  9. Hadrian, AD 76 – AD 138
  10. Antoninus Pius, AD 86 – AD 161
  11. Ptolemy, c. AD 100 – c. AD 170
  12. Herodes Atticus, c. AD 101 – AD 177
  13. Lucian, c. AD 120 – c. AD 180
  14. Marcus Aurelius, AD 121 – AD 180
  15. Pertinax, AD 126 – AD 193
  16. Irenaeus, c. AD 130 – c. AD 202
  17. Lucius Verus, AD 130 – AD 169
  18. Didius Julianus, AD 133 – AD 193
  19. Septimius Severus, AD 146 – AD 211
  20. Nagarjuna, c. AD 150 – c. AD 250
  21. Clement of Alexandria, c. AD 150 – c. AD 215
  22. Tertullian, c. AD 160 – c. AD 240
  23. Commodus, AD 161 – AD 192
  24. Macrinus, c. AD 164 – AD 218

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When Herodes Atticus died, Marcus Aurelius was 55 or 56, Septimius Severus was 30 or 31, Commodus was 15 or 16, Didius Julianus was 43 or 44 and Pertinax was 50 or 51.

Born during Herodes Atticus’s lifetime: Marcus Aurelius, Nagarjuna, Lucian, Tertullian, Septimius Severus, Commodus, Didius Julianus and Macrinus.

Not quite contemporaries: Domitian died about 4 years before Herodes Atticus was born, Pope Anacletus died about a year before Herodes Atticus was born, Caracalla was born about 11 years after Herodes Atticus died and Nerva died about 2 years before Herodes Atticus was born.

Where Herodes Atticus’s contemporaries were born

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Compare Herodes Atticus

The 57 best-known contemporaries

57 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Herodes Atticus. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 139.

  1. Marcus Aurelius AD 121 – AD 180
  2. Plutarch c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  3. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  4. Ptolemy c. AD 100 – c. AD 170
  5. Nagarjuna c. AD 150 – c. AD 250
  6. Epictetus c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  7. Trajan AD 53 – c. AD 117
  8. Hadrian AD 76 – AD 138
  9. Lucian c. AD 120 – c. AD 180
  10. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  11. Tertullian c. AD 160 – c. AD 240
  12. Antoninus Pius AD 86 – AD 161
  13. Septimius Severus AD 146 – AD 211
  14. Martial c. AD 40 – AD 104
  15. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  16. Commodus AD 161 – AD 192
  17. Didius Julianus AD 133 – AD 193
  18. Macrinus c. AD 164 – AD 218
  19. Pertinax AD 126 – AD 193
  20. Irenaeus c. AD 130 – c. AD 202
  21. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  22. Clement of Alexandria c. AD 150 – c. AD 215
  23. Lucius Verus AD 130 – AD 169
  24. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  25. Maximinus Thrax AD 173 – AD 238
  26. Saint Valentine AD 175 – AD 273
  27. Cao Cao AD 155 – AD 220
  28. Gordian I AD 159 – AD 238
  29. Justin Martyr c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  30. Zhang Heng AD 78 – AD 139
  31. Appian c. AD 95 – c. AD 165
  32. Arrian c. AD 91 – c. AD 176
  33. Pausanias c. AD 113 – c. AD 180
  34. Polycarp c. AD 69 – AD 155
  35. Hippolytus of Rome c. AD 170 – AD 235
  36. Ulpian AD 170 – AD 228
  37. Aulus Gellius c. AD 130 – c. AD 180
  38. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  39. Kanishka AD 78 – AD 144
  40. Marcion of Sinope c. AD 90 – c. AD 160
  41. Tatian c. AD 120 – c. AD 173
  42. Aśvaghoṣa AD 80 – AD 150
  43. Guan Yu AD 160 – AD 220
  44. Clodius Albinus AD 150 – AD 197
  45. Antinous c. AD 111 – AD 130
  46. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  47. Gaius c. 120s – c. AD 180
  48. Liu Bei AD 161 – AD 223
  49. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  50. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  51. Herodian c. AD 170 – c. AD 250
  52. Papinian AD 142 – c. AD 212
  53. Florus c. AD 72 – c. AD 140
  54. Marcus Cornelius Fronto c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  55. Vologases V AD 130 – AD 208
  56. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120
  57. Sextus Julius Africanus c. AD 160 – c. AD 240