Who Was Alive
Polycarp
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Polycarp

Presbyter

Born AD 69–70 · died 23 February AD 155
Also known as Polycarp of Smyrna, Bishop Polycarp, Bishop Polycarp of Smyrna

Who was alive at the same time as Polycarp?

  1. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  2. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  3. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  4. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  5. Nerva, AD 30 – AD 98
  6. Quintilian, c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  7. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  8. Martial, c. AD 40 – AD 104
  9. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  10. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  11. Pope Sixtus I, c. AD 42 – 120s
  12. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  13. Domitian, AD 51 – AD 96
  14. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  15. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117
  16. Pliny the Younger, c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  17. Polycarp, c. AD 69 – AD 155
  18. Hadrian, AD 76 – AD 138
  19. Antoninus Pius, AD 86 – AD 161
  20. Ptolemy, c. AD 100 – c. AD 170
  21. Lucian, c. AD 120 – c. AD 180
  22. Marcus Aurelius, AD 121 – AD 180
  23. Septimius Severus, AD 146 – AD 211
  24. Nagarjuna, c. AD 150 – c. AD 250

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When Polycarp died, Marcus Aurelius was 33, Antoninus Pius was 68, Septimius Severus was 8 or 9, Didius Julianus was 21 or 22 and Pertinax was 28.

Born during Polycarp’s lifetime: Marcus Aurelius, Ptolemy, Nagarjuna, Hadrian, Lucian, Antoninus Pius, Septimius Severus and Didius Julianus.

Not quite contemporaries: Paul the Apostle died about a year before Polycarp was born, Saint Peter died months before Polycarp was born, Nero died months before Polycarp was born and Claudius died about 14 years before Polycarp was born.

What happened in Polycarp’s lifetime

Where Polycarp’s contemporaries were born

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The 66 best-known contemporaries

66 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Polycarp. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 113.

  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. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  6. Nagarjuna c. AD 150 – c. AD 250
  7. Epictetus c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  8. Trajan AD 53 – c. AD 117
  9. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  10. Hadrian AD 76 – AD 138
  11. Lucian c. AD 120 – c. AD 180
  12. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  13. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  14. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  15. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  16. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  17. Antoninus Pius AD 86 – AD 161
  18. Septimius Severus AD 146 – AD 211
  19. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  20. Martial c. AD 40 – AD 104
  21. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  22. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  23. Quintilian c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  24. Didius Julianus AD 133 – AD 193
  25. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  26. Pertinax AD 126 – AD 193
  27. Irenaeus c. AD 130 – c. AD 202
  28. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  29. Clement of Alexandria c. AD 150 – c. AD 215
  30. Lucius Verus AD 130 – AD 169
  31. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  32. Justin Martyr c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  33. Zhang Heng AD 78 – AD 139
  34. Appian c. AD 95 – c. AD 165
  35. Arrian c. AD 91 – c. AD 176
  36. Pausanias c. AD 113 – c. AD 180
  37. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  38. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  39. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  40. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  41. Aulus Gellius c. AD 130 – c. AD 180
  42. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  43. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  44. Kanishka AD 78 – AD 144
  45. Marcion of Sinope c. AD 90 – c. AD 160
  46. Tatian c. AD 120 – c. AD 173
  47. Aśvaghoṣa AD 80 – AD 150
  48. Clodius Albinus AD 150 – AD 197
  49. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  50. Antinous c. AD 111 – AD 130
  51. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  52. Gaius c. 120s – c. AD 180
  53. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  54. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  55. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  56. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  57. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  58. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  59. Papinian AD 142 – c. AD 212
  60. Florus c. AD 72 – c. AD 140
  61. Marcus Cornelius Fronto c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  62. Vologases V AD 130 – AD 208
  63. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  64. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  65. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120
  66. Herodes Atticus c. AD 101 – AD 177