Who Was Alive

Plautus

Roman comic playwright

Born 250 BC · died 184 BC

Who was alive at the same time as Plautus?

  1. Ashoka
  2. Archimedes
  3. Eratosthenes
  4. Qin Shi Huang
  5. Plautus
  6. Hannibal
  7. Cato the Elder
  8. Polybius
  9. Terence
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Plautus was born, Qin Shi Huang was 8 or 9 and Eratosthenes was 25 or 26.

Born during Plautus’s lifetime: Hannibal, Cato the Elder, Terence and Polybius.

Not quite contemporaries: Zeno of Citium died 12 years before Plautus was born.

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