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Seneca the Elder
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Seneca the Elder

Roman writer and historian

Born c. 54 BC · died c. AD 39
Also known as Annæus Seneca, Annaeus Seneca maior

Who was alive at the same time as Seneca the Elder?

  1. Cicero, 106–43 BC
  2. Pompey, 106–48 BC
  3. Julius Caesar, 100–44 BC
  4. Mark Antony, BC–BC
  5. Vitruvius, c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  6. Cleopatra, c. 69 – 30 BC
  7. Virgil, 70–19 BC
  8. Strabo, c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  9. Horace, 65–8 BC
  10. Augustus, 63 BC – AD 14
  11. Livy, BC – AD 17
  12. Seneca the Elder, c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  13. Ovid, 43 BC – AD 17
  14. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37
  15. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  16. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  17. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  18. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  19. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  20. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  21. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  22. Caligula, AD 12 – AD 41
  23. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  24. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s

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Born during Seneca the Elder’s lifetime: Ovid, Paul the Apostle, Saint Peter, Caligula, Pliny the Elder, Tiberius, Vespasian and Claudius.

Not quite contemporaries: Tacitus was born about 11 years after Seneca the Elder died, Epictetus was born about 7 years after Seneca the Elder died, Trajan was born about 12 years after Seneca the Elder died and Domitian was born about 10 years after Seneca the Elder died.

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Where Seneca the Elder’s contemporaries were born

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The 81 best-known contemporaries

81 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Seneca the Elder. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 8 BC.

  1. Julius Caesar 100–44 BC
  2. Virgil 70–19 BC
  3. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  4. Cicero 106–43 BC
  5. Ovid 43 BC – AD 17
  6. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  7. Cleopatra c. 69 – 30 BC
  8. Horace 65–8 BC
  9. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  10. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  11. Livy BC – AD 17
  12. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  13. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  14. Strabo c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  15. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  16. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  17. Pompey 106–48 BC
  18. Mark Antony BC–BC
  19. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  20. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  21. Vitruvius c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  22. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  23. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  24. Diodorus Siculus c. 90 – c. 20 BC
  25. Otho AD 32 – AD 69
  26. Petronius c. AD 27 – AD 66
  27. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  28. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  29. Sallust 86–35 BC
  30. Herod the Great c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  31. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  32. Boudica c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  33. Arminius c. 17 BC – c. AD 21
  34. Marcus Junius Brutus c. 85 – 42 BC
  35. Marcus Terentius Varro 116–BC
  36. Saint Anne c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  37. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  38. Saint Stephen c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  39. Propertius c. 47 – BC
  40. Vercingetorix c. 80 – BC
  41. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa BC–BC
  42. Dionysius of Halicarnassus c. 60 – BC
  43. Cato the Younger BC–BC
  44. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  45. Germanicus 15 BC – AD 19
  46. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  47. Cornelius Nepos c. 100 – c. 25 BC
  48. Caesarion 47–30 BC
  49. Posidonius 135–BC
  50. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  51. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  52. Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator BC–47 BC
  53. Livia BC – AD 29
  54. Velleius Paterculus c. 19 BC – c. AD 31
  55. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  56. Persius AD 34 – AD 62
  57. Ptolemy XII Auletes 117–BC
  58. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  59. Lepidus c. 90 – BC
  60. Wang Mang c. 45 BC – AD 23
  61. Nero Claudius Drusus 38–9 BC
  62. Gaius Cassius Longinus c. 82 – BC
  63. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  64. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  65. Juba II BC – AD 23
  66. Cleopatra Selene II 40–BC
  67. Gaius Julius Hyginus c. 64 BC – AD 17
  68. Agrippina the Elder BC – AD 33
  69. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  70. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  71. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  72. Herod Archelaus BC – c. AD 17
  73. Gaius Caesar BC – AD 4
  74. Aenesidemus c. 80 – c. 10 BC
  75. Nicolaus of Damascus BC – AD 4
  76. Dongmyeong of Goguryeo BC–BC
  77. Sejanus 20 BC – AD 31
  78. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  79. Julia the Elder 39 BC – AD 14
  80. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  81. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100