Who Was Alive
Sejanus
Etching by G. Mochetti after drawing by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sejanus

Roman soldier

Born 3 June 20 BC · died 16–18 October AD 31, aged 50
Also known as Aelius Sejanus, Seianus, Lucius Seius Strabo

Who was alive at the same time as Sejanus?

  1. Vitruvius, c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  2. Herod the Great, c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  3. Virgil, 70–19 BC
  4. Strabo, c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  5. Horace, 65–8 BC
  6. Augustus, 63 BC – AD 14
  7. Livy, BC – AD 17
  8. Ovid, 43 BC – AD 17
  9. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37
  10. Sejanus, 20 BC – AD 31
  11. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  12. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  13. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  14. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  15. Hero of Alexandria, c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  16. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  17. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  18. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  19. Caligula, AD 12 – AD 41
  20. Vitellius, AD 15 – AD 69
  21. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  22. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  23. Petronius, c. AD 27 – AD 66
  24. Nerva, AD 30 – AD 98

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When Sejanus was born, Virgil was 49, Augustus was 42, Ovid was 23, Horace was 44 and Livy was 38 or 39.

When Sejanus died, Saint Peter was 30 or 31, Caligula was 19, Tiberius was 71, Vespasian was 21 and Claudius was 40.

Born during Sejanus’s lifetime: Paul the Apostle, Saint Peter, Caligula, Pliny the Elder, Vespasian, Claudius, Pope Linus and Mark the Evangelist.

Not quite contemporaries: Cleopatra died about 10 years before Sejanus was born, Plutarch was born about 8 years after Sejanus died, Nero was born about 6 years after Sejanus died and Titus was born about 8 years after Sejanus died.

Where Sejanus’s contemporaries were born

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Birthplaces as a list

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The 60 best-known contemporaries

60 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Sejanus. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 6.

  1. Virgil 70–19 BC
  2. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  3. Ovid 43 BC – AD 17
  4. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  5. Horace 65–8 BC
  6. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  7. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  8. Livy BC – AD 17
  9. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  10. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  11. Strabo c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  12. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  13. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  14. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  15. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  16. Vitruvius c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  17. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  18. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  19. Petronius c. AD 27 – AD 66
  20. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  21. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  22. Herod the Great c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  23. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  24. Arminius c. 17 BC – c. AD 21
  25. Saint Anne c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  26. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  27. Saint Stephen c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  28. Propertius c. 47 – BC
  29. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa BC–BC
  30. Dionysius of Halicarnassus c. 60 – BC
  31. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  32. Germanicus 15 BC – AD 19
  33. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  34. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  35. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  36. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  37. Livia BC – AD 29
  38. Velleius Paterculus c. 19 BC – c. AD 31
  39. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  40. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  41. Lepidus c. 90 – BC
  42. Wang Mang c. 45 BC – AD 23
  43. Nero Claudius Drusus 38–9 BC
  44. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  45. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  46. Juba II BC – AD 23
  47. Cleopatra Selene II 40–BC
  48. Gaius Julius Hyginus c. 64 BC – AD 17
  49. Agrippina the Elder BC – AD 33
  50. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  51. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  52. Herod Archelaus BC – c. AD 17
  53. Gaius Caesar BC – AD 4
  54. Aenesidemus c. 80 – c. 10 BC
  55. Nicolaus of Damascus BC – AD 4
  56. Dongmyeong of Goguryeo BC–BC
  57. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  58. Julia the Elder 39 BC – AD 14
  59. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  60. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100