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Ptolemy XII Auletes
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Ptolemy XII Auletes

Pharaoh

Born 117 BC · died 51 BC, aged 65 or 66

Who was alive at the same time as Ptolemy XII Auletes?

  1. Sima Qian, c. 140 – BC
  2. Sulla, 138–BC
  3. Ptolemy XII Auletes, 117–BC
  4. Marcus Terentius Varro, 116–BC
  5. Marcus Licinius Crassus, 115–53 BC
  6. Cicero, 106–43 BC
  7. Pompey, 106–48 BC
  8. Spartacus, 103–71 BC
  9. Julius Caesar, 100–44 BC
  10. Lucretius, BC–55 BC
  11. Diodorus Siculus, c. 90 – c. 20 BC
  12. Marcus Junius Brutus, c. 85 – 42 BC
  13. Catullus, c. 84 – c. 54 BC
  14. Sallust, 86–35 BC
  15. Mark Antony, BC–BC
  16. Vitruvius, c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  17. Herod the Great, c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  18. Cleopatra, c. 69 – 30 BC
  19. Virgil, 70–19 BC
  20. Strabo, c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  21. Horace, 65–8 BC
  22. Augustus, 63 BC – AD 14
  23. Livy, BC – AD 17
  24. Saint Anne, c. 55 BC – c. AD 12

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When Ptolemy XII Auletes was born, Tigranes the Great was 22 or 23, Emperor Wu of Han was 38 or 39, Ptolemy IX Soter was 24 or 25, Jugurtha was 42 or 43 and Zhang Qian was 82 or 83.

When Ptolemy XII Auletes died, Julius Caesar was 48, Virgil was 18, Augustus was 11, Cicero was 55 and Horace was 13.

Born during Ptolemy XII Auletes’s lifetime: Julius Caesar, Virgil, Augustus, Cicero, Cleopatra, Horace, Livy and Lucretius.

Not quite contemporaries: Ovid was born about 8 years after Ptolemy XII Auletes died, Tiberius was born about 9 years after Ptolemy XII Auletes died, Propertius was born about 2 years after Ptolemy XII Auletes died and Caesarion was born about 4 years after Ptolemy XII Auletes died.

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The 55 best-known contemporaries

55 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ptolemy XII Auletes. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 84 BC.

  1. Julius Caesar 100–44 BC
  2. Virgil 70–19 BC
  3. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  4. Cicero 106–43 BC
  5. Cleopatra c. 69 – 30 BC
  6. Horace 65–8 BC
  7. Sima Qian c. 140 – BC
  8. Livy BC – AD 17
  9. Lucretius BC–55 BC
  10. Catullus c. 84 – c. 54 BC
  11. Strabo c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  12. Pompey 106–48 BC
  13. Mark Antony BC–BC
  14. Vitruvius c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  15. Spartacus 103–71 BC
  16. Diodorus Siculus c. 90 – c. 20 BC
  17. Sallust 86–35 BC
  18. Herod the Great c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  19. Sulla 138–BC
  20. Marcus Junius Brutus c. 85 – 42 BC
  21. Marcus Terentius Varro 116–BC
  22. Marcus Licinius Crassus 115–53 BC
  23. Saint Anne c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  24. Tigranes the Great 140–BC
  25. Gaius Marius c. 158 – 86 BC
  26. Emperor Wu of Han 156–87 BC
  27. Vercingetorix c. 80 – BC
  28. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa BC–BC
  29. Mithridates VI Eupator c. 133 – BC
  30. Dionysius of Halicarnassus c. 60 – BC
  31. Cato the Younger BC–BC
  32. Cornelius Nepos c. 100 – c. 25 BC
  33. Posidonius 135–BC
  34. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  35. Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator BC–47 BC
  36. Catiline 108–62 BC
  37. Livia BC – AD 29
  38. Lepidus c. 90 – BC
  39. Ptolemy IX Soter 142–81 BC
  40. Jugurtha 160–104 BC
  41. Gaius Cassius Longinus c. 82 – BC
  42. Cleopatra II c. 186 – 116 BC
  43. Ptolemy VIII Physcon 182–116 BC
  44. Cleopatra III c. 161 – 101 BC
  45. Ptolemy X Alexander I c. 139 – BC
  46. Gaius Julius Hyginus c. 64 BC – AD 17
  47. Lucullus c. 117 – c. 57 BC
  48. Zhang Qian 200 – c. 114 BC
  49. Dionysius Thrax 170–BC
  50. Lucius Cornelius Cinna 135–BC
  51. Aenesidemus c. 80 – c. 10 BC
  52. Nicolaus of Damascus BC – AD 4
  53. Dongmyeong of Goguryeo BC–BC
  54. Cleopatra IV c. 138 – 112 BC
  55. Alexander Jannaeus c. 127 – BC