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Persius
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Persius

Roman poet

Born 4 December AD 34 · died 24 November AD 62, aged 27
Also known as Aulus Persius Flaccus

Who was alive at the same time as Persius?

  1. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37
  2. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  3. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  4. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  5. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  6. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  7. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  8. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  9. Caligula, AD 12 – AD 41
  10. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  11. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  12. Petronius, c. AD 27 – AD 66
  13. Otho, AD 32 – AD 69
  14. Persius, AD 34 – AD 62
  15. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  16. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  17. Martial, c. AD 40 – AD 104
  18. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  19. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  20. Pope Sixtus I, c. AD 42 – 120s
  21. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  22. Domitian, AD 51 – AD 96
  23. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  24. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117

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When Persius was born, Saint Peter was 33 or 34, Caligula was 22, Tiberius was 75, Vespasian was 25 and Claudius was 43.

When Persius died, Saint Peter was 61 or 62, Nero was 24, Trajan was 9, Vespasian was 53 and Titus was 22.

Born during Persius’s lifetime: Plutarch, Tacitus, Nero, Epictetus, Trajan, Titus, Domitian and Josephus.

Not quite contemporaries: Strabo died about 10 years before Persius was born, Hadrian was born about 14 years after Persius died, Arminius died about 11 years before Persius was born and Polycarp was born about 6 years after Persius died.

Where Persius’s contemporaries were born

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The 54 best-known contemporaries

54 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Persius. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 48.

  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. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  9. Epictetus c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  10. Trajan AD 53 – c. AD 117
  11. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  12. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  13. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  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. Lucan AD 39 – AD 65
  27. Quintilian c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  28. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  29. Boudica c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  30. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  31. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  32. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  33. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  34. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  35. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  36. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  37. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  38. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  39. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  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