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Lucullus
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Lucullus

Roman military leader

Born c. 117 BC · died c. 57 BC
Also known as Lucius Licinius Lucullus, Lucius Lucullus, Ponticus

Who was alive at the same time as Lucullus?

  1. Gaius Marius, c. 158 – 86 BC
  2. Sima Qian, c. 140 – BC
  3. Tigranes the Great, 140–BC
  4. Sulla, 138–BC
  5. Lucullus, c. 117 – c. 57 BC
  6. Marcus Terentius Varro, 116–BC
  7. Marcus Licinius Crassus, 115–53 BC
  8. Cicero, 106–43 BC
  9. Pompey, 106–48 BC
  10. Spartacus, 103–71 BC
  11. Julius Caesar, 100–44 BC
  12. Lucretius, BC–55 BC
  13. Diodorus Siculus, c. 90 – c. 20 BC
  14. Marcus Junius Brutus, c. 85 – 42 BC
  15. Catullus, c. 84 – c. 54 BC
  16. Sallust, 86–35 BC
  17. Mark Antony, BC–BC
  18. Vitruvius, c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  19. Herod the Great, c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  20. Cleopatra, c. 69 – 30 BC
  21. Virgil, 70–19 BC
  22. Strabo, c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  23. Horace, 65–8 BC
  24. Augustus, 63 BC – AD 14

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Born during Lucullus’s lifetime: Julius Caesar, Virgil, Augustus, Cicero, Cleopatra, Horace, Lucretius and Catullus.

Not quite contemporaries: Ovid was born about 12 years after Lucullus died, Tiberius was born about 13 years after Lucullus died, Propertius was born about 6 years after Lucullus died and Caesarion was born about 8 years after Lucullus died.

Where Lucullus’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 Lucullus. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 87 BC.

  1. Julius Caesar 100–44 BC
  2. Virgil 70–19 BC
  3. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  4. Cicero 106–43 BC
  5. Cleopatra c. 69 – 30 BC
  6. Horace 65–8 BC
  7. Sima Qian c. 140 – BC
  8. Lucretius BC–55 BC
  9. Catullus c. 84 – c. 54 BC
  10. Strabo c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  11. Pompey 106–48 BC
  12. Mark Antony BC–BC
  13. Vitruvius c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  14. Spartacus 103–71 BC
  15. Diodorus Siculus c. 90 – c. 20 BC
  16. Sallust 86–35 BC
  17. Herod the Great c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  18. Sulla 138–BC
  19. Marcus Junius Brutus c. 85 – 42 BC
  20. Marcus Terentius Varro 116–BC
  21. Marcus Licinius Crassus 115–53 BC
  22. Tigranes the Great 140–BC
  23. Gaius Marius c. 158 – 86 BC
  24. Emperor Wu of Han 156–87 BC
  25. Vercingetorix c. 80 – BC
  26. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa BC–BC
  27. Mithridates VI Eupator c. 133 – BC
  28. Cato the Younger BC–BC
  29. Cornelius Nepos c. 100 – c. 25 BC
  30. Posidonius 135–BC
  31. Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator BC–47 BC
  32. Catiline 108–62 BC
  33. Ptolemy XII Auletes 117–BC
  34. Lepidus c. 90 – BC
  35. Ptolemy IX Soter 142–81 BC
  36. Jugurtha 160–104 BC
  37. Gaius Cassius Longinus c. 82 – BC
  38. Cleopatra III c. 161 – 101 BC
  39. Ptolemy X Alexander I c. 139 – BC
  40. Gaius Julius Hyginus c. 64 BC – AD 17
  41. Dionysius Thrax 170–BC
  42. Lucius Cornelius Cinna 135–BC
  43. Aenesidemus c. 80 – c. 10 BC
  44. Nicolaus of Damascus BC – AD 4
  45. Cleopatra IV c. 138 – 112 BC
  46. Alexander Jannaeus c. 127 – BC