Who Was Alive
Lucan
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Lucan

Roman poet

Born 3 November AD 39 · died 30 April AD 65, aged 25
Also known as Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Lucanus

Who was alive at the same time as Lucan?

  1. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  2. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  3. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  4. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  5. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  6. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  7. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  8. Caligula, AD 12 – AD 41
  9. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  10. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  11. Petronius, c. AD 27 – AD 66
  12. Otho, AD 32 – AD 69
  13. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  14. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  15. Martial, c. AD 40 – AD 104
  16. Lucan, AD 39 – AD 65
  17. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  18. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  19. Pope Sixtus I, c. AD 42 – 120s
  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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When Lucan was born, Saint Peter was 38 or 39, Nero was 1, Caligula was 27, Vespasian was 29 and Claudius was 48.

When Lucan died, Nero was 27, Trajan was 11, Vespasian was 55, Titus was 25 and Domitian was 13.

Born during Lucan’s lifetime: Plutarch, Tacitus, Epictetus, Trajan, Titus, Pliny the Younger, Domitian and Pope Sixtus I.

Not quite contemporaries: Tiberius died about 2 years before Lucan was born, Strabo died about 15 years before Lucan was born, Hadrian was born about 11 years after Lucan died and Saint Stephen died months before Lucan was born.

What happened in Lucan’s lifetime

Where Lucan’s contemporaries were born

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Compare Lucan

The 55 best-known contemporaries

55 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Lucan. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 52.

  1. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  2. Plutarch c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  3. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  4. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  5. Nero AD 37 – AD 68
  6. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  7. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  8. Epictetus c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  9. Trajan AD 53 – c. AD 117
  10. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  11. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  12. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  13. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  14. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  15. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  16. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  17. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  18. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  19. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  20. Martial c. AD 40 – AD 104
  21. Otho AD 32 – AD 69
  22. Petronius c. AD 27 – AD 66
  23. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  24. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  25. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  26. Quintilian c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  27. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  28. Boudica c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  29. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  30. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  31. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  32. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  33. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  34. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  35. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  36. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  37. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  38. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  39. Persius AD 34 – AD 62
  40. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  41. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  42. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  43. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  44. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  45. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  46. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  47. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  48. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  49. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  50. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  51. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  52. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  53. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  54. Claudia Octavia c. AD 40 – AD 62
  55. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120