Who Was Alive

Linus

2nd Pope of the Catholic Church

Born AD 10 · died AD 79, aged 68 or 69

Who was alive at the same time as Linus?

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 Linus was born, Augustus was 71 or 72, Ovid was 51 or 52, Saint Peter was 9 or 10, Titus Livius was 67 or 68 and Tiberius was 50 or 51.

When Linus died, Trajan was 25 or 26, Hadrian was 2 or 3, Titus was 39 or 40, Domitian was 27 or 28 and Josephus was 41 or 42.

Born during Linus’s lifetime: Plutarch, Tacitus, Nero, Caligula, Pliny the Elder, Epictetus, Trajan and Hadrian.

Not quite contemporaries: Antoninus Pius was born 7 years after Linus died.

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All 25 contemporaries we track

  1. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  2. Ovid 43 BC – AD 17
  3. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – AD 64–67
  4. Plutarch AD 40–50 – c. AD 120
  5. Saint Peter BC – AD 64–68
  6. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  7. Nero AD 37 – AD 68
  8. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  9. Titus Livius BC – AD 17
  10. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  11. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  12. Epictetus c. AD 50 – AD 125–138
  13. Strabo c. 63 BC – AD 21–24
  14. Trajan AD 53 – AD 115–119
  15. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  16. Hadrian AD 76 – AD 138
  17. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  18. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  19. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – AD 112–114
  20. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  21. Mark the Evangelist AD 9–20 – AD 68
  22. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  23. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  24. Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  25. Martial AD 38–41 – AD 104