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Poppaea Sabina
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Poppaea Sabina

Roman sovereign

Born AD 30 · died AD 65, aged 34 or 35
Also known as Poppaea Augusta Sabina, Poppaea Sabina the Younger, Ollia Poppaea

Who was alive at the same time as Poppaea Sabina?

  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. Poppaea Sabina, AD 30 – AD 65
  14. Otho, AD 32 – AD 69
  15. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  16. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  17. Martial, c. AD 40 – AD 104
  18. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  19. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  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 Poppaea Sabina was born, Saint Peter was 29 or 30, Caligula was 17 or 18, Tiberius was 70 or 71, Vespasian was 20 or 21 and Claudius was 38 or 39.

When Poppaea Sabina died, Nero was 27 or 28, Trajan was 11 or 12, Vespasian was 55 or 56, Titus was 25 or 26 and Domitian was 13 or 14.

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

Not quite contemporaries: Ovid died about 12 years before Poppaea Sabina was born, Livy died about 12 years before Poppaea Sabina was born, Strabo died about 5 years before Poppaea Sabina was born and Hadrian was born about 11 years after Poppaea Sabina died.

What happened in Poppaea Sabina’s lifetime

Where Poppaea Sabina’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 Poppaea Sabina. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 47.

  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. Petronius c. AD 27 – AD 66
  24. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  25. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  26. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  27. Lucan AD 39 – AD 65
  28. Quintilian c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  29. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  30. Boudica c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  31. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  32. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  33. Saint Stephen c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  34. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  35. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  36. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  37. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  38. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  39. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  40. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  41. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  42. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  43. Persius AD 34 – AD 62
  44. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  45. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  46. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  47. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  48. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  49. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  50. Agrippina the Elder BC – AD 33
  51. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  52. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  53. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  54. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  55. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  56. Sejanus 20 BC – AD 31
  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