Who Was Alive
Rabbi Akiva
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Rabbi Akiva

Theologian

Born c. AD 50 · died 28 September AD 135
Also known as Akiva ben Joseph, Akiva ben Yosef, Rabbi Akivah

Who was alive at the same time as Rabbi Akiva?

  1. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  2. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  3. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  4. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  5. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  6. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  7. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  8. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  9. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  10. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  11. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  12. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  13. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  14. Rabbi Akiva, c. AD 50 – AD 135
  15. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  16. Domitian, AD 51 – AD 96
  17. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  18. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117
  19. Pliny the Younger, c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  20. Hadrian, AD 76 – AD 138
  21. Antoninus Pius, AD 86 – AD 161
  22. Ptolemy, c. AD 100 – c. AD 170
  23. Lucian, c. AD 120 – c. AD 180
  24. Marcus Aurelius, AD 121 – AD 180

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When Rabbi Akiva died, Marcus Aurelius was 14, Hadrian was 59, Antoninus Pius was 49, Didius Julianus was 1 or 2 and Pertinax was 9.

Born during Rabbi Akiva’s lifetime: Marcus Aurelius, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Trajan, Hadrian, Lucian, Pliny the Younger and Antoninus Pius.

Not quite contemporaries: Caligula died about 6 years before Rabbi Akiva was born, Nagarjuna was born about 12 years after Rabbi Akiva died, Tiberius died about 10 years before Rabbi Akiva was born and Septimius Severus was born about 11 years after Rabbi Akiva died.

What happened in Rabbi Akiva’s lifetime

Where Rabbi Akiva’s contemporaries were born

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Compare Rabbi Akiva

The 77 best-known contemporaries

77 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Rabbi Akiva. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 94.

  1. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  2. Marcus Aurelius AD 121 – AD 180
  3. Plutarch c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  4. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  5. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  6. Ptolemy c. AD 100 – c. AD 170
  7. Nero AD 37 – AD 68
  8. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  9. Epictetus c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  10. Trajan AD 53 – c. AD 117
  11. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  12. Hadrian AD 76 – AD 138
  13. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  14. Lucian c. AD 120 – c. AD 180
  15. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  16. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  17. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  18. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  19. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  20. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  21. Antoninus Pius AD 86 – AD 161
  22. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  23. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  24. Martial c. AD 40 – AD 104
  25. Otho AD 32 – AD 69
  26. Petronius c. AD 27 – AD 66
  27. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  28. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  29. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  30. Lucan AD 39 – AD 65
  31. Quintilian c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  32. Didius Julianus AD 133 – AD 193
  33. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  34. Boudica c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  35. Pertinax AD 126 – AD 193
  36. Irenaeus c. AD 130 – c. AD 202
  37. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  38. Lucius Verus AD 130 – AD 169
  39. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  40. Justin Martyr c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  41. Zhang Heng AD 78 – AD 139
  42. Appian c. AD 95 – c. AD 165
  43. Arrian c. AD 91 – c. AD 176
  44. Pausanias c. AD 113 – c. AD 180
  45. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  46. Polycarp c. AD 69 – AD 155
  47. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  48. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  49. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  50. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  51. Aulus Gellius c. AD 130 – c. AD 180
  52. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  53. Persius AD 34 – AD 62
  54. Kanishka AD 78 – AD 144
  55. Marcion of Sinope c. AD 90 – c. AD 160
  56. Tatian c. AD 120 – c. AD 173
  57. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  58. Aśvaghoṣa AD 80 – AD 150
  59. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  60. Antinous c. AD 111 – AD 130
  61. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  62. Gaius c. 120s – c. AD 180
  63. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  64. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  65. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  66. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  67. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  68. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  69. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  70. Florus c. AD 72 – c. AD 140
  71. Marcus Cornelius Fronto c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  72. Vologases V AD 130 – AD 208
  73. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  74. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  75. Claudia Octavia c. AD 40 – AD 62
  76. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120
  77. Herodes Atticus c. AD 101 – AD 177