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Velleius Paterculus
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Velleius Paterculus

Roman historian and soldier

Born c. 19 BC · died c. AD 31
Also known as Marcus Velleius Paterculus

Who was alive at the same time as Velleius Paterculus?

  1. Herod the Great, c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  2. Strabo, c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  3. Horace, 65–8 BC
  4. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, BC–BC
  5. Augustus, 63 BC – AD 14
  6. Livy, BC – AD 17
  7. Saint Anne, c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  8. Ovid, 43 BC – AD 17
  9. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37
  10. Velleius Paterculus, c. 19 BC – c. AD 31
  11. Arminius, c. 17 BC – c. AD 21
  12. Philo, c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  13. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  14. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  15. Saint Stephen, c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  16. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  17. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  18. Hero of Alexandria, c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  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. Vitellius, AD 15 – AD 69
  24. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s

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Born during Velleius Paterculus’s lifetime: Paul the Apostle, Saint Peter, Caligula, Vespasian, Claudius, Pope Linus, Mark the Evangelist and Galba.

Not quite contemporaries: Cleopatra died about 9 years before Velleius Paterculus was born, Plutarch was born about 6 years after Velleius Paterculus died, Nero was born about 4 years after Velleius Paterculus died and Epictetus was born about 15 years after Velleius Paterculus died.

Where Velleius Paterculus’s contemporaries were born

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The 52 best-known contemporaries

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

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