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Philo
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Philo

Roman philosopher

Born c. 15 BC · died c. AD 50
Also known as Philo of Alexandria, Philo Judeaus, Philo Alexandrinus

Who was alive at the same time as Philo?

  1. Strabo, c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  2. Horace, 65–8 BC
  3. Augustus, 63 BC – AD 14
  4. Livy, BC – AD 17
  5. Ovid, 43 BC – AD 17
  6. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37
  7. Philo, c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  8. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  9. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  10. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  11. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  12. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  13. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  14. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  15. Caligula, AD 12 – AD 41
  16. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  17. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  18. Petronius, c. AD 27 – AD 66
  19. Otho, AD 32 – AD 69
  20. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  21. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  22. Martial, c. AD 40 – AD 104
  23. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  24. Pope Sixtus I, c. AD 42 – 120s

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Born during Philo’s lifetime: Paul the Apostle, Saint Peter, Nero, Caligula, Pliny the Elder, Vespasian, Claudius and Titus.

Not quite contemporaries: Virgil died about a year before Philo was born, Cleopatra died about 12 years before Philo was born, Trajan was born about a year after Philo died and Pliny the Younger was born about 7 years after Philo died.

Where Philo’s contemporaries were born

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The 73 best-known contemporaries

73 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Philo. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 18.

  1. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  2. Ovid 43 BC – AD 17
  3. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  4. Horace 65–8 BC
  5. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  6. Nero AD 37 – AD 68
  7. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  8. Livy BC – AD 17
  9. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  10. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  11. Strabo c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  12. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  13. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  14. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  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. Herod the Great c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  29. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  30. Boudica c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  31. Arminius c. 17 BC – c. AD 21
  32. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  33. Saint Anne c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  34. Saint Stephen c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  35. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa BC–BC
  36. Dionysius of Halicarnassus c. 60 – BC
  37. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  38. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  39. Germanicus 15 BC – AD 19
  40. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  41. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  42. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  43. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  44. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  45. Livia BC – AD 29
  46. Velleius Paterculus c. 19 BC – c. AD 31
  47. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  48. Persius AD 34 – AD 62
  49. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  50. Wang Mang c. 45 BC – AD 23
  51. Nero Claudius Drusus 38–9 BC
  52. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  53. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  54. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  55. Juba II BC – AD 23
  56. Cleopatra Selene II 40–BC
  57. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  58. Gaius Julius Hyginus c. 64 BC – AD 17
  59. Agrippina the Elder BC – AD 33
  60. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  61. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  62. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  63. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  64. Herod Archelaus BC – c. AD 17
  65. Gaius Caesar BC – AD 4
  66. Aenesidemus c. 80 – c. 10 BC
  67. Nicolaus of Damascus BC – AD 4
  68. Sejanus 20 BC – AD 31
  69. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  70. Julia the Elder 39 BC – AD 14
  71. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  72. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  73. Claudia Octavia c. AD 40 – AD 62