Who Was Alive
Petronius
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Petronius

Roman writer

Born c. AD 27 · died AD 66
Also known as Gaius Petronius Arbiter, Petronius Arbiter, Publius Petronius Niger

Who was alive at the same time as Petronius?

  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. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  15. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  16. Martial, c. AD 40 – AD 104
  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 Petronius died, Nero was 28 or 29, Trajan was 12 or 13, Vespasian was 56 or 57, Titus was 26 or 27 and Domitian was 14 or 15.

Born during Petronius’s lifetime: Plutarch, Tacitus, Nero, Epictetus, Trajan, Titus, Pliny the Younger and Domitian.

Not quite contemporaries: Augustus died about 10 years before Petronius was born, Ovid died about 7 years before Petronius was born, Livy died about 7 years before Petronius was born and Hadrian was born about 10 years after Petronius died.

What happened in Petronius’s lifetime

Where Petronius’s contemporaries were born

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The 60 best-known contemporaries

60 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Petronius. 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. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  15. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  16. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  17. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  18. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  19. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  20. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  21. Martial c. AD 40 – AD 104
  22. Otho AD 32 – AD 69
  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. Saint Stephen c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  33. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  34. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  35. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  36. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  37. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  38. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  39. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  40. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  41. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  42. Persius AD 34 – AD 62
  43. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  44. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  45. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  46. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  47. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  48. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  49. Agrippina the Elder BC – AD 33
  50. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  51. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  52. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  53. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  54. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  55. Sejanus 20 BC – AD 31
  56. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  57. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  58. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  59. Claudia Octavia c. AD 40 – AD 62
  60. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120