Who Was Alive
Pausanias
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Pausanias

Geographer and travel writer

Born AD 108–117 · died c. AD 180
Also known as Pausanias Periegetes

Who was alive at the same time as Pausanias?

  1. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  2. Pope Sixtus I, c. AD 42 – 120s
  3. Cai Lun, c. AD 55 – AD 121
  4. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  5. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  6. Hadrian, AD 76 – AD 138
  7. Antoninus Pius, AD 86 – AD 161
  8. Ptolemy, c. AD 100 – c. AD 170
  9. Pausanias, c. AD 113 – c. AD 180
  10. Lucian, c. AD 120 – c. AD 180
  11. Marcus Aurelius, AD 121 – AD 180
  12. Pertinax, AD 126 – AD 193
  13. Irenaeus, c. AD 130 – c. AD 202
  14. Lucius Verus, AD 130 – AD 169
  15. Didius Julianus, AD 133 – AD 193
  16. Septimius Severus, AD 146 – AD 211
  17. Nagarjuna, c. AD 150 – c. AD 250
  18. Clement of Alexandria, c. AD 150 – c. AD 215
  19. Cao Cao, AD 155 – AD 220
  20. Tertullian, c. AD 160 – c. AD 240
  21. Commodus, AD 161 – AD 192
  22. Macrinus, c. AD 164 – AD 218
  23. Maximinus Thrax, AD 173 – AD 238
  24. Saint Valentine, AD 175 – AD 273

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

Not quite contemporaries: Domitian died about 12 years before Pausanias was born, Josephus died about 6 years before Pausanias was born, Pope Anacletus died about 9 years before Pausanias was born and Martial died about 4 years before Pausanias was born.

Where Pausanias’s contemporaries were born

Pausanias is labelled; the others are the best-known people we track who lived at the same time. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (45 of 52 placed); tap one to open that person.
Birthplaces as a list

Compare Pausanias

The 51 best-known contemporaries

51 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Pausanias. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 147.

  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. Hadrian AD 76 – AD 138
  8. Lucian c. AD 120 – c. AD 180
  9. Tertullian c. AD 160 – c. AD 240
  10. Antoninus Pius AD 86 – AD 161
  11. Septimius Severus AD 146 – AD 211
  12. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  13. Commodus AD 161 – AD 192
  14. Didius Julianus AD 133 – AD 193
  15. Macrinus c. AD 164 – AD 218
  16. Pertinax AD 126 – AD 193
  17. Irenaeus c. AD 130 – c. AD 202
  18. Clement of Alexandria c. AD 150 – c. AD 215
  19. Lucius Verus AD 130 – AD 169
  20. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  21. Maximinus Thrax AD 173 – AD 238
  22. Saint Valentine AD 175 – AD 273
  23. Cao Cao AD 155 – AD 220
  24. Gordian I AD 159 – AD 238
  25. Justin Martyr c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  26. Zhang Heng AD 78 – AD 139
  27. Appian c. AD 95 – c. AD 165
  28. Arrian c. AD 91 – c. AD 176
  29. Polycarp c. AD 69 – AD 155
  30. Hippolytus of Rome c. AD 170 – AD 235
  31. Ulpian AD 170 – AD 228
  32. Aulus Gellius c. AD 130 – c. AD 180
  33. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  34. Kanishka AD 78 – AD 144
  35. Marcion of Sinope c. AD 90 – c. AD 160
  36. Tatian c. AD 120 – c. AD 173
  37. Aśvaghoṣa AD 80 – AD 150
  38. Guan Yu AD 160 – AD 220
  39. Clodius Albinus AD 150 – AD 197
  40. Antinous c. AD 111 – AD 130
  41. Gaius c. 120s – c. AD 180
  42. Liu Bei AD 161 – AD 223
  43. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  44. Herodian c. AD 170 – c. AD 250
  45. Papinian AD 142 – c. AD 212
  46. Florus c. AD 72 – c. AD 140
  47. Marcus Cornelius Fronto c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  48. Vologases V AD 130 – AD 208
  49. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120
  50. Herodes Atticus c. AD 101 – AD 177
  51. Sextus Julius Africanus c. AD 160 – c. AD 240