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Marcus Junius Brutus
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Marcus Junius Brutus

Roman philosopher

Born c. 85 BC · died 23 October 42 BC
Also known as Q. Caepio Brutus, Marcus Iunius Brutus, Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus

Who was alive at the same time as Marcus Junius Brutus?

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

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When Marcus Junius Brutus died, Virgil was 28, Augustus was 21, Ovid was 1, Horace was 22 and Livy was 16 or 17.

Born during Marcus Junius Brutus’s lifetime: Virgil, Augustus, Ovid, Cleopatra, Horace, Livy, Strabo and Vitruvius.

Not quite contemporaries: Tiberius was born months after Marcus Junius Brutus died, Nero Claudius Drusus was born about 4 years after Marcus Junius Brutus died, Cleopatra III died about 13 years before Marcus Junius Brutus was born and Cleopatra Selene II was born about 2 years after Marcus Junius Brutus died.

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The 48 best-known contemporaries

48 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Marcus Junius Brutus. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 62 BC.

  1. Julius Caesar 100–44 BC
  2. Virgil 70–19 BC
  3. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  4. Cicero 106–43 BC
  5. Ovid 43 BC – AD 17
  6. Cleopatra c. 69 – 30 BC
  7. Horace 65–8 BC
  8. Livy BC – AD 17
  9. Lucretius BC–55 BC
  10. Catullus c. 84 – c. 54 BC
  11. Strabo c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  12. Pompey 106–48 BC
  13. Mark Antony BC–BC
  14. Vitruvius c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  15. Spartacus 103–71 BC
  16. Diodorus Siculus c. 90 – c. 20 BC
  17. Sallust 86–35 BC
  18. Herod the Great c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  19. Sulla 138–BC
  20. Marcus Terentius Varro 116–BC
  21. Marcus Licinius Crassus 115–53 BC
  22. Saint Anne c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  23. Tigranes the Great 140–BC
  24. Propertius c. 47 – BC
  25. Vercingetorix c. 80 – BC
  26. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa BC–BC
  27. Mithridates VI Eupator c. 133 – BC
  28. Dionysius of Halicarnassus c. 60 – BC
  29. Cato the Younger BC–BC
  30. Cornelius Nepos c. 100 – c. 25 BC
  31. Caesarion 47–30 BC
  32. Posidonius 135–BC
  33. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  34. Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator BC–47 BC
  35. Catiline 108–62 BC
  36. Livia BC – AD 29
  37. Ptolemy XII Auletes 117–BC
  38. Lepidus c. 90 – BC
  39. Wang Mang c. 45 BC – AD 23
  40. Ptolemy IX Soter 142–81 BC
  41. Gaius Cassius Longinus c. 82 – BC
  42. Juba II BC – AD 23
  43. Gaius Julius Hyginus c. 64 BC – AD 17
  44. Lucullus c. 117 – c. 57 BC
  45. Aenesidemus c. 80 – c. 10 BC
  46. Nicolaus of Damascus BC – AD 4
  47. Dongmyeong of Goguryeo BC–BC
  48. Alexander Jannaeus c. 127 – BC