Who Was Alive

Horace

Roman lyric poet (65 BC – 8 BC)

Born 8 December 65 BC · died 27 November 8 BC, aged 56

Who was alive at the same time as Horace?

  1. Cicero
  2. Pompey
  3. Julius Caesar
  4. Lucretius
  5. Catullus
  6. Mark Antony
  7. Vitruvius
  8. Cleopatra
  9. Virgil
  10. Strabo
  11. Horace
  12. Augustus
  13. Titus Livius
  14. Ovid
  15. Tiberius
  16. Claudius
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Horace was born, Julius Caesar was 35, Virgil was 5, Cicero was 41, Lucretius was 28 or 29 and Pompey was 41.

When Horace died, Augustus was 55, Ovid was 35, Titus Livius was 50 or 51, Tiberius was 34 and Claudius was 2.

Born during Horace’s lifetime: Augustus, Ovid, Titus Livius, Tiberius and Claudius.

Not quite contemporaries: Paul the Apostle was born 9 years after Horace died, Saint Peter was born 6 years after Horace died, Spartacus died 6 years before Horace was born and Galba was born 5 years after Horace died.

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