Who Was Alive
Statius
Erasmo di Valvasone (1523 – 1593), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Statius

Roman poet

Born AD 45 · died AD 96, aged 50 or 51
Also known as Publius Papinius Statius

Who was alive at the same time as Statius?

  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. Petronius, c. AD 27 – AD 66
  11. Otho, AD 32 – AD 69
  12. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  13. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  14. Martial, c. AD 40 – AD 104
  15. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  16. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  17. Statius, AD 45 – AD 96
  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 Statius was born, Saint Peter was 44 or 45, Nero was 7 or 8, Vespasian was 35 or 36, Claudius was 53 or 54 and Titus was 5 or 6.

When Statius died, Trajan was 42 or 43, Hadrian was 19 or 20, Josephus was 58 or 59, Antoninus Pius was 9 or 10 and Nerva was 65 or 66.

Born during Statius’s lifetime: Tacitus, Epictetus, Trajan, Hadrian, Pliny the Younger, Domitian, Antoninus Pius and Cai Lun.

Not quite contemporaries: Ptolemy was born about a year after Statius died, Caligula died about 3 years before Statius was born, Tiberius died about 7 years before Statius was born and Saint Stephen died about 5 years before Statius was born.

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Where Statius’s contemporaries were born

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The 61 best-known contemporaries

61 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Statius. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 70.

  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. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  7. Epictetus c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  8. Trajan AD 53 – c. AD 117
  9. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  10. Hadrian AD 76 – AD 138
  11. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  12. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  13. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  14. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  15. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  16. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  17. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  18. Antoninus Pius AD 86 – AD 161
  19. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  20. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  21. Martial c. AD 40 – AD 104
  22. Otho AD 32 – AD 69
  23. Petronius c. AD 27 – AD 66
  24. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  25. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  26. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  27. Lucan AD 39 – AD 65
  28. Quintilian c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  29. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  30. Boudica c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  31. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  32. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  33. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  34. Zhang Heng AD 78 – AD 139
  35. Polycarp c. AD 69 – AD 155
  36. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  37. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  38. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  39. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  40. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  41. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  42. Persius AD 34 – AD 62
  43. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  44. Kanishka AD 78 – AD 144
  45. Marcion of Sinope c. AD 90 – c. AD 160
  46. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  47. Aśvaghoṣa AD 80 – AD 150
  48. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  49. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  50. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  51. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  52. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  53. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  54. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  55. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  56. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  57. Florus c. AD 72 – c. AD 140
  58. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  59. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  60. Claudia Octavia c. AD 40 – AD 62
  61. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120