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Silius Italicus
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Silius Italicus

Roman poet

Born AD 26 · died AD 101

Who was alive at the same time as Silius Italicus?

  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. Silius Italicus, AD 26 – AD 101
  13. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  14. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  15. Martial, c. AD 40 – AD 104
  16. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  17. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  18. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  19. Domitian, AD 51 – AD 96
  20. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  21. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117
  22. Pliny the Younger, c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  23. Hadrian, AD 76 – AD 138
  24. Antoninus Pius, AD 86 – AD 161

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When Silius Italicus was born, Saint Peter was 25 or 26, Caligula was 13 or 14, Tiberius was 66 or 67, Vespasian was 16 or 17 and Claudius was 34 or 35.

When Silius Italicus died, Trajan was 47 or 48, Hadrian was 24 or 25, Antoninus Pius was 14 or 15, Aśvaghoṣa was 20 or 21 and Ban Zhao was 55 or 56.

Born during Silius Italicus’s lifetime: Plutarch, Tacitus, Nero, Epictetus, Trajan, Hadrian, Titus and Pliny the Younger.

Not quite contemporaries: Augustus died about 11 years before Silius Italicus was born, Ovid died about 8 years before Silius Italicus was born, Livy died about 8 years before Silius Italicus was born and Strabo died about a year before Silius Italicus was born.

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Where Silius Italicus’s contemporaries were born

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The 73 best-known contemporaries

73 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Silius Italicus. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 63.

  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. Hadrian AD 76 – AD 138
  13. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  14. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  15. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  16. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  17. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  18. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  19. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  20. Antoninus Pius AD 86 – AD 161
  21. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  22. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  23. Martial c. AD 40 – AD 104
  24. Otho AD 32 – AD 69
  25. Petronius c. AD 27 – AD 66
  26. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  27. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  28. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  29. Lucan AD 39 – AD 65
  30. Quintilian c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  31. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  32. Boudica c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  33. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  34. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  35. Saint Stephen c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  36. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  37. Zhang Heng AD 78 – AD 139
  38. Appian c. AD 95 – c. AD 165
  39. Arrian c. AD 91 – c. AD 176
  40. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  41. Polycarp c. AD 69 – AD 155
  42. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  43. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  44. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  45. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  46. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  47. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  48. Livia BC – AD 29
  49. Velleius Paterculus c. 19 BC – c. AD 31
  50. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  51. Persius AD 34 – AD 62
  52. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  53. Kanishka AD 78 – AD 144
  54. Marcion of Sinope c. AD 90 – c. AD 160
  55. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  56. Aśvaghoṣa AD 80 – AD 150
  57. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  58. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  59. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  60. Agrippina the Elder BC – AD 33
  61. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  62. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  63. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  64. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  65. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  66. Sejanus 20 BC – AD 31
  67. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  68. Florus c. AD 72 – c. AD 140
  69. Marcus Cornelius Fronto c. AD 100 – c. AD 165
  70. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  71. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  72. Claudia Octavia c. AD 40 – AD 62
  73. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120